Veritas Source

Veritas Source is a media transparency directory covering 190 news outlets in 60 countries. It shows ownership, funding, track record and AI-content signals for each source, plus article, text and image checks, without issuing ratings or verdicts.

Veritas Source is a media transparency tool that lets readers look behind a news outlet instead of judging it by its headlines. Its stated approach is to offer no ratings and no verdicts, only the underlying data. The directory covers 190 sources across 60 countries, from wire services such as Associated Press and Agence France-Presse to broadcasters, national dailies and investigative groups like Bellingcat. Each source has its own profile built around four checks: AI detection, ownership, funding and track record. Ownership traces parent companies and holding structures using public corporate filings and press freedom databases. Funding looks at advertising dependency, government ties and commercial backers. Track record lists documented corrections, editorial incidents and fact-check flags. The site is open about limits: when data is not public, the field says so, and a missing incident record is not presented as proof of a clean history. Every profile also carries a political bias placement on a left to right scale, labeled as an AI estimate with a confidence level and described as a starting point rather than a conclusion. In practice, a visitor can paste an article URL, a text snippet or an image URL into the main check box. Three guided paths sit beside it: unmasking a source, comparing how a different outlet covered the same story, and checking whether an image shows markers of AI generation, such as synthetic textures, GAN artifacts or metadata anomalies. Those image results are probabilistic and come with a confidence level. The directory can be filtered by bias, status, country and alphabetical order, and individual profiles link to a compare view. The tool suits journalists, students, researchers, educators and ordinary news readers who want context on a publisher before trusting or sharing its material. Compared with rating services that assign a single grade, it favors documented evidence and named sources so users can verify claims themselves. A free weekly newsletter on media bias and AI news is also offered.