FactCheckingTools.AI is the first AI-powered fact-checking and open-source investigation toolkits on the Chinese Internet, with the simple goal of making fact-checking and open-source investigations more accessible.

As a group of fact-checkers, we are well aware that fact-checking and open-source investigation tools were once monopolized by professional organizations or hidden behind high technical barriers. Ordinary people are like unarmed fighters when facing suspicious information, and their efforts to find reliable tool recommendations in the Chinese language world are even more difficult.

What we do is provide infrastructure and public goods. We hope that this program will help change the mindset of news consumers from passive to active, so that Chinese people, especially young people, can acquire the ability to criticize and verify as early as possible.

Nick Hagar, a researcher at Northwestern University who studies digital media and AI, wisely noted: “Meta’s retreat from centralized fact-checking may signal the end of an era, but it also creates space for reimagining how we verify online information. While current LLMs can’t fully automate this critical task, they could become powerful tools in a more distributed approach to fighting misinformation. The future may not lie in platform-mandated verification, but in empowering users with a combination of AI-enhanced tools, decentralized networks, and human expertise. As our information ecosystem fragments and evolves, the most resilient solutions may be those that put verification tools directly in the hands of users.”

We track and test the latest tools across more than 10 different categories, including search, images, videos, social media, geolocation, maps, satellite imagery, archiving, website investigation, data analysis, AI content detection, aviation and ship tracking, and more. We also aggregate relevant content that has been verified by the global fact-checking and open source investigation communities.

The rapid advancement of open source AI technology has given us easy access to sophisticated technologies that previously seemed out of reach. We use Chinese tech company Tencent’s Large Knowledge Engine (LKE) and DeepSeek’s DeepSeek-V3 model to quickly create a knowledge base about fact-checking tools and methods as raw data for training AI. Users can ask us questions about fact-checking and open source investigations in natural language, and our AI assistant will provide specific tool and method suggestions based on the questions.

Please note that the answers are based on the tools in our knowledge base, and AI-generated content may still contain errors and hallucinations, although we will continue to correct and optimize the relevant parameters.

In addition, no one tool is suitable for all situations. Please use a combination of tools and verification methods based on your actual situation. The tools we recommend should be regarded as suggestions rather than definitive.

If you would like to recommend a tool, point out a bug, or make a comment or suggestion about our product, please contact:

Wei Xing

Founder of FactCheckingTools.AI and China Fact Check

chinafactcheck@gmail.com