Trooth

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  Drop your claim, watch the meter, and hit 'trooify' - truth hunting starts here.

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  Hang tight. Trooth is grilling the internet so you don’t have to.

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  Verdict delivered: score, trusted sources, and myth-busting receipts in one swipe.

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  See how the sausage is made: rubrics, sliders, and the full narrative of why the claim scored zero. Ask ChatGPT

Inspiration

Every scroll through social media makes it clearer: our information supply chain is breaking. Deep-fakes look real, headlines travel faster than they’re checked, and even honest creators drown in half-truths. Trooth was born to fight that fatigue—so anyone can click once and get a transparent, professional-grade fact-check.

What Trooth Does

1. Claim ingestion – Paste or type any statement.
   
2. Evidence hunt – Trooth searches the open web, news APIs, academic papers, and other data sets.
   
3. Source scoring – Each source is ranked for reliability, expertise, conflicts of interest, recency, and independence.
   
4. Verdict synthesis – Weighted evidence rolls up into a 0-100 credibility score with a plain-language explanation.
   
5. Shareable proof card – Copy a link or embed the findings wherever you publish.

How We Built It

• React 18 + TypeScript + Vite for a fast, type-safe front end.
  
• Tailwind CSS with a custom Material Design 3 palette for styling.
  
• Supabase (PostgreSQL with Row-Level Security, Edge Functions, Auth, Realtime) as the back end.
  
• Perplexity AI API (llama-3.1-sonar-large-128k-online) for real-time fact verification and summarisation.
  
• Netlify handles builds, hosting, and continuous deployment.
  
• ESLint, Prettier, PostCSS and custom React hooks keep the codebase tidy.
  
• Browser fingerprinting, local-storage caching, and rate-limits protect the service.

Challenges We Hit

• Crafting a scoring rubric that balances nuance with readability.
  
• Keeping response times low while calling external AI and multiple data sources.
  
• Enforcing strict usage limits without hurting legitimate users.
  
• Designing a clean UX that makes complex evidence easy to scan.

What We Learned

• Users value seeing uncertainty—flagging unknown earns more trust than guessing.
  
• Quick, source-linked explanations beat long narratives for day-to-day fact-checks.
  
• Even small UI cues (highlighted quotes, bias tags) help readers orient themselves fast.

What’s Next

• Ship a Chrome extension so credibility scores appear directly on social feeds.
  
• Open an API for journalists and researchers who need batch checks.
  
• Add multilingual retrieval and translation to reach a global audience.
  
• Partner with media-literacy organisations to pilot Trooth in classrooms.

Trooth’s mission: make rigorous fact-checking instant, transparent, and accessible to everyone. Feedback and collaborators are more than welcome!

Built With

• ai
• api
• auth)
• css
• edge
• functions
• llama-3.1)
• netlify
• perplexity
• postgresql
• react
• realtime
• sonar
• supabase
• tailwind
• typescript
• vite