Verify Social Media
claims in seconds.
Share any Instagram Reel or YouTube Short.
Veriq extracts claims, searches trusted sources, and explains whether the information is true, false, misleading, or outdated.
How Veriq Verifies Claims
Step-by-step breakdown of how reels and video tracks are transformed into verified evidence.
Share Reel or Short
Paste any Instagram Reel or YouTube Short URL into the app.
Extract Audio
Isolated locally inside a secure WebView sandbox.
Speech to Text
Transcribes audio tracks instantly into text sequences.
Detect Claims
Logical AI engines isolate checkable factual assertions.
Search Trusted Sources
Queries real-time research, publications, and news indices.
Verify With AI
Compares claims against evidence to compute verification logs.
Generate Report
Produces citation-backed trust reports with verdicts.
See Veriq In Action
Real verification output checking a viral space myth.
"NASA is hiding this! JWST just photographed city lights on exoplanet K2-18b..."
Social Post Ingestion
Users paste public URLs directly. Unlike server-side crawlers that get immediately blocked by Instagram or YouTube CDNs, Veriq loads the link securely inside a secure local sandbox to extract clean raw audio.
Verification Labels
Every analyzed statement is classified under one of five distinct verification tags.
TRUE
Supported by trusted evidence.
FALSE
Contradicted by trusted evidence.
MISLEADING
Contains partial truth but omits context.
OUTDATED
Was once true but no longer accurate.
UNVERIFIABLE
Insufficient evidence available.
Why Trust Veriq?
Our architecture is engineered from the ground up to support scientific transparency over arbitrary opinions.
Source Grounded
We verify claims using trusted publications and authoritative sources.
AI-Assisted, Not Opinion-Based
Results are generated strictly from retrieved evidence, not opinions.
Transparent Reasoning
Every result includes explicit explanations, scores, and sources.
Privacy First
Uploaded audio is encrypted and deleted automatically within 24 hours.
Security & Privacy
We process media secure pathways to guarantee you own your metadata checking activities.
Temporary Audio Storage
All audio files are isolated locally and deleted automatically from the server within 24 hours.
Encrypted Communication
Queries, transcribing packets, and database verification tokens are protected with SSL/TLS encryption.
No Permanent Media Storage
We extract raw audio streams on your client device WebView. Videos are never permanently stored.
User-Controlled Data
You retain ownership of your checks. Control your history indexes and purge your account data anytime.
Built For Mobile
Seamlessly audit links, check processing logs, and explore historic claims in our fast mobile utility.
Trust & Verification Insights
Read peer-reviewed research analyzing the impact of social media algorithms, psychological harms, and misinformation epidemics on public trust.
The Core View-Change & Persuasion Study
"Keepin’ it Reel: Investigating how Short Videos on TikTok and Instagram Reels Influence View Change"
This study by City University London and RMIT University proves that the unique formatting of Reels and Shorts has a disproportionately strong persuasive power to alter individual worldviews. It found that short videos bypass critical validation steps, causing serendipitous belief shifts.
- •Lowers critical cognitive barriers to verify claims.
- •First-person perspective acts as a heuristic shortcut to trust.
- •Alters personal/political worldviews passively via personalized feeds.
- •Design triggers dopamine responses that mimic dependency behaviors.
The Mental Health & "Self-Diagnosis" Epidemic
"Navigating the Maze of Social Media Disinformation on Psychiatric Illness"
An observational study of 1,000 TikTok videos across 16 countries. It revealed that 22% of top-performing psychiatric videos contain misleading content, leading to dangerous self-diagnosis from rapid soundbites and avoiding evidence-based treatments.
- •Dilutes clinical language (e.g., misusing 'gaslighting', 'trauma').
- •Encourages dangerous self-diagnosis of neurodevelopmental disorders.
- •Promotes unproven quick-fixes and fake cures (like dietary supplements).
- •Causes clinical avoidance, discouraging professional therapy and medication.
The Democratic & News Credibility Crisis
"Short-Form Video Platforms and the Crisis of News Credibility in India"
Examining platformized misinformation, this research outlines how the shift to creator-based videos destroys public trust. Algorithmic loops prioritize virality and emotional charge, while the Mere Exposure Effect tricks the brain into accepting repeating false assertions.
- •Erodes public trust in traditional source-mediated journalism.
- •Brevity compresses complex structural news into sensational clips.
- •Mere Exposure Effect loops false claims until they feel familiar and true.
- •Algorithmic reinforcement accelerates political polarization and division.
Frequently Asked Questions
Coming Soon
Explore the upcoming security expansions, integrations, and logic tools planned on our roadmap.
Multimodal Video Audit
Analyze visual frames, check text overlays, evaluate contextual metadata, and cross-reference on-screen actions alongside raw audio tracks.
TikTok Ingestion
Natively extract and audit spoken claims directly from viral TikTok video URLs within our secure WebView device utility sandbox.
Deepfake Audio Alert
Leverage speech diagnostics and voiceprint modeling to flag synthetic voice-cloning artifacts and deepfake audio voiceovers.
Live Fact-Checking
Route live audio streams from press conferences or events to instantly transcribe, isolate, and audit claims against trusted databases.
Stop Guessing. Verify First.
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