Factiverse
Factiverse is a Norwegian fact-checking engine that transcribes video, audio and live broadcasts, extracts every checkable claim, then searches news archives, government databases and research in real time for sources that support or dispute it.
What is Factiverse?
Factiverse is a fact-verification engine built by Factiverse AS in Stavanger, Norway. It grew out of a research project started in 2016 by Dr Vinay Setty at the University of Stavanger, and became a company when journalist and author Maria Amelie joined as co-founder and CEO in 2020. The patented method behind it runs in five steps: ingest a text, video or audio source, detect and extract the checkable claims, test each one against internal and external knowledge bases, present supporting, neutral and disputing verdicts for human review, then export the result.
Three products sit on that engine. Gather handles published video: paste a YouTube or NRK link and, a few minutes later, you get a timestamped transcript, the extracted claims and sources for each one. Clicking a claim jumps to the moment it was spoken, and you can filter by source type, date or relevance, or search transcript and claims together. Factiverse Live works on live streams, recordings and audio files, identifying speakers and flagging contested statements as they are made. Factiverse API puts the same analysis inside a platform, app or CMS, returning Supported or Disputed ratings and CSV exports; plugins exist for Telegram and ChatGPT.
Coverage is deliberately multilingual: 110+ languages for written analysis and 55+ for transcription, strongest on Norwegian, English, French, German and the Nordic languages. The company claims instant access to 200 million scientific journals and describes FactiSearch as the most comprehensive fact-check database available.
The customer list is institutional rather than consumer. NRK uses it for resource-critical events, SVT for monitoring 120 hours of daily political YouTube, Finland's Viestimedia has embedded the API in its Renki newsroom workflow, and NATO and allied governments use it for multilingual claim analysis. Published cases include 2,528 statements mapped across Hungary's 2026 election, 1,123 claims from the 2024 US presidential debates and 368 claims across six Moldovan election streams.
One design choice stands out. No submitted content and no result is stored; only the name and email address given at sign-up are kept.
What it does
- Extract every checkable claim from text, video, audio or a live stream
- Search news archives, government databases and published research in real time for sources that support or dispute each claim
- Transcribe recordings and live broadcasts with timestamps and speaker identification
- Rate statements as Supported or Disputed and show the evidence on both sides
- Monitor chosen channels, podcasts and conferences and send claim reports by email
- Search an organisation's own archive alongside external sources
- Deliver the whole analysis into a platform, app or CMS through the API
When to use Factiverse / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Factiverse is the right fit.
When to use Factiverse
- Political reporters and broadcast newsrooms that must monitor debates, campaign speeches and interviews faster than they can be transcribed
- Professional fact-checking teams working across several languages with limited headcount
- Government, election-monitoring and intelligence units tracking foreign-language claims and influence narratives
- Public service broadcasters facing more political video each day than any desk can watch
- AI and product teams that need factual grounding and an evidence trail behind model outputs
When not to use Factiverse
- Writers looking for a tool that drafts articles, since Factiverse analyses existing content and never generates news
- Anyone wanting a browser extension or a mobile app, as access runs through the web app, the API and platform partnerships only
- Teams monitoring TikTok, Telegram or Instagram, where coverage is still limited to YouTube and NRK
- Buyers who need a published price before a sales conversation, because no plan is listed publicly
- Editors who expect to correct a transcript or reword a detected claim themselves, which the product does not yet allow
How to use Factiverse
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Create an account at app.factiverse.ai, where a free tier exists with a monthly cap on the number of characters fact-checked
- Open Gather in your browser: there is nothing to download, install or configure
- Paste the URL of a publicly available video, currently YouTube or NRK
- Leave the analysis running in the background and wait for the email notification, usually a few minutes
- Read the timestamped transcript alongside the list of extracted claims
- Click any claim to jump straight to the moment it was spoken in the video
- Filter by source type, date or relevance, or search the transcript and the claims at the same time
- Review the supporting, neutral and disputing sources attached to each claim
- Export the analysis as CSV, PDF, spreadsheet or plain text
- For Live or the API, book a consultation: the team agrees a call volume and walks through the integration, with documentation at api.factiverse.ai/v1/redoc
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Genuine multilingual reach, with 110+ languages proven on Hungarian, Moldovan and Czech election coverage rather than English alone
- Every claim is timestamped and links back to the exact moment it was spoken, so nothing has to be taken on trust
- No submitted content and no result is retained, which matters for confidential or embargoed material
- Academic foundations you can check: research since 2016, TU Delft and University of Stavanger partnerships, a granted patent, co-authorship of the FactIR benchmark
- Institutional references rather than testimonials, including NRK, SVT, Viestimedia, Tjekdet, The Kyiv Independent and NATO-allied governments
- European vendor, EEA hosting and a detailed, dated GDPR page
- Three ways in: a browser-only web app with nothing to install, a managed service for live events, and an API
Cons
- No public pricing at all: the pricing page returns 404, Live is quoted case by case and Gather's price is still to be confirmed
- Social coverage is thin, with YouTube alone for election monitoring and TikTok and Telegram still in development
- Gather accepts YouTube and NRK links and nothing else for now
- You cannot correct a transcript or reword a detected claim; the vendor lists it as a future feature
- Language quality is uneven and the site's own figures disagree, with 110+, 116 and 55+ appearing on different pages
- No security or trust page, no SOC 2 or ISO 27001 claim, and no data processing agreement mentioned
- The site is partly stale: the Products menu still advertises AI Editor, FactiSearch and a five-dollar monthly Factiverse GPT behind dead links
Pricing & Plans
There is a permanent free plan: an account can be created in the application, with a monthly cap on the number of characters that can be fact-checked. Beyond that, no price is published. Factiverse Live is sold under a custom pricing agreement based on the type and volume of content analysed, API access is granted as a call allowance negotiated with the team, and Gather launched with an introductory offer whose final rates have not been confirmed. Prices are stated to be subject to change without notice. No published entry-level paid price can therefore be quoted.
- Free account in the web application
- capped at a limited number of characters fact-checked per month
- launch-period early access pricing
- final rates not yet confirmed
- custom pricing agreement based on the type and volume of content analysed
- call allowance agreed with the team as part of a negotiated plan
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Factiverse handles your data.
GDPR overview
Implementation is documented rather than certified. A dedicated page, the Factiverse GDPR Plan, last updated on 18 March 2026, serves as the privacy policy. Factiverse AS names itself data controller, cites the Article 6 lawful bases it relies on (contract, legitimate interests, legal obligation and consent) and lists concrete rights: information, withdrawal of consent, portability, subject access, rectification, objection, restriction and erasure. Deadlines are stated, with one month for general requests and thirty days for access and rectification. Erasure is limited where data was collected under an active contract and is less than six years old. Data is held on cloud servers within the EEA. Gather's FAQ states that the product is fully GDPR compliant. No DPO, no Article 27 representative and no DPA are mentioned anywhere.
Who owns the data?
Factiverse AS, in Stavanger, operates the service under Norwegian law and acts as data controller for account data. Ownership of the material you analyse stays with you: the company states that it stores neither the video and audio you submit nor the results it produces, keeping only the name and email address given at sign-up. One asymmetry deserves attention. The terms grant Factiverse an unrestricted right to edit, copy, publish, distribute and translate any comment, idea or suggestion you send it, with no duty of confidentiality. Account data may be shared with group companies, technology partners including Amazon Web Services, professional advisers and public authorities.
Reuse rights
You may reuse what you produce with the tool. The terms restrict resale of the Service itself, not the analyses you run through it, and exports are offered as CSV through the API and as PDF, spreadsheet or plain text from the web app, with no permission step described. What is expressly forbidden is reproducing, duplicating, copying, selling, reselling or otherwise exploiting any portion of the Service without written permission, along with scraping, circumventing security features and collecting other people's personal data. Results are supplied as is and as available: Factiverse warrants neither their accuracy nor their reliability, and states that any reliance on material produced through the application is at your own risk.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
Hosting is described by region, not by country. The privacy policy states that personal data is stored on cloud servers within the EEA, and that storage outside the EEA happens only where the jurisdiction has been assessed as compliant with the GDPR. Amazon Web Services is named as the cloud hosting provider used to store personal data securely. No individual country and no data-centre location is given. The scope of what is hosted is narrow by design. Neither the video and audio submitted for analysis nor the results produced from them are stored at all, according to the FAQs for both Gather and Factiverse Live. What remains is account data, essentially the name and email address supplied at sign-up, plus communications sent to the company and technical information such as IP addresses. The vendor itself, Factiverse AS, is established in Stavanger, Norway, an EEA country, and the terms are governed by Norwegian law. The public website is served through Cloudflare, which says nothing about where application data is stored. No hosting certification such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001 is claimed anywhere on the site.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Factiverse.
- The vendor states plainly that it does not warrant the accuracy or reliability of results, so a Supported or Disputed verdict is a lead to check, never a publishable conclusion
- Handing editorial judgement to an automated verdict erodes the very skill the work depends on: the tool speeds up checking, it does not replace the checker
- Ranking by historical source credibility structurally disadvantages true but under-reported facts, and new outlets are ignored by design
- Bias indicators come from an unnamed third-party rating service whose methodology is not published on the site
- Transcription is reported at around 95% accuracy by one user, and the remaining margin concerns public statements attributed to named individuals, where a misheard word carries legal and reputational risk
- Comments, ideas and suggestions sent to the vendor may be edited, published, distributed and translated without restriction and without any duty of confidentiality
- The terms warn that your content may be transferred unencrypted, and building an information-integrity process on a single supplier concentrates real dependency
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Low for Gather, higher for everything else. Gather needs no installation at all: create an account, open it in a browser, paste a video URL. Factiverse Live is delivered as a managed service, so setup is handled with the team and mainly requires a stable connection. The API is developer work, integrated into a platform, app or CMS using the published documentation once a call allowance has been agreed. Customising how Supported and Disputed ratings appear is possible but must be coordinated with Factiverse, which also offers integration troubleshooting to API customers.
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Behind Factiverse
Fundraising
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Resources
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Frequently asked questions
What can Factiverse actually analyse?
Do I need to install anything?
How long does an analysis take?
How many languages are supported?
Is the content I submit stored?
Is there an API, and where is the documentation?
What does it cost?
Does Factiverse write articles or detect bias?
Where is the data hosted?
Should you pick Factiverse?
Factiverse is a narrow tool that does one thing thoroughly. It turns spoken and written material into a list of checkable claims, each timestamped and each attached to sources that either back it up or contradict it, across a genuinely wide set of languages rather than English alone. The foundations are unusually verifiable for this market: a decade of academic research, partnerships with TU Delft and the University of Stavanger, a granted patent, and adoption by public broadcasters and NATO-allied governments rather than by an anonymous user base.
Two things set it apart in practice. The first is that nothing you submit is kept, neither video nor audio nor results, only the name and email on the account, which makes it usable on embargoed or sensitive material. The second is the workspace: claims are not delivered as a static report but as something you can filter, search and trace back to the exact second they were spoken.
The reservations are just as clear. There is no published price anywhere, so any serious evaluation begins with a sales call. Source coverage remains narrow, with YouTube and NRK for Gather and TikTok and Telegram merely announced. You cannot yet correct a transcript or a misread claim. Language quality is uneven and the site's own figures contradict each other. The site also carries a stale navigation menu advertising products and a monthly price behind dead links, a reminder to check any isolated claim against a live page.
For a newsroom, an election-monitoring unit or a research team drowning in political video, Factiverse is worth the consultation. For anyone wanting a self-serve, priced, install-and-go fact-checker, it is not that product yet.
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