Questions people ask

Checking content about the elections before you share it: photos, videos, voice notes, links and messages about candidates, parties, voting and results. An instant check looks for signs that it was made or changed with AI, and you can ask a fact-checker to look into it.

No. It only looks for signs of AI, and real content can still mislead. To find out whether something is true, ask a fact-checker from your result. Fact-checkers are people, so this takes longer than the instant check.

The instant check works on any photo, video, voice note, link or text. Our fact-checkers focus on the elections, so they may not be able to review requests about other topics.

When you send a request, you get a request code like VFY-7KQ2-M9XD. Enter it under Check a request to see where your request is and, once the review is complete, what the fact-checker found. Keep the code safe: we can’t recover it, because we don’t collect your contact details.

It depends on the claim and how many requests come in. Once a fact-checker starts on your request, we show when to check back.

Photos (JPG, PNG, WebP or HEIC) up to 10 MB, videos (MP4, MOV or WebM) up to 50 MB, voice notes and other audio (OPUS, M4A, MP3, AAC, OGG or WAV) up to 20 MB, links, and text up to 5,000 characters. These limits may change during testing.

We don’t ask for your name, phone number or email. After an instant check, your file is deleted automatically within 24 hours. If you ask a fact-checker, we keep it while they work on it, with hidden details such as location removed, and delete it 90 days after the request is closed. We keep only anonymous details, such as the result and a digital fingerprint of the file, to spot trends and repeat posts.

Detection tools are good but not perfect, and new AI tools appear all the time. When the signs are weak or the tools disagree, we say the result is inconclusive rather than guess.

English for now. More languages are coming soon.