What Semblen added, newest first.
October 24, 2026
An analysis now says when the piece is satire, and when it’s a developing story published in the last day, whose first reports are often wrong. Strike the charged words crosses out the loaded words in the article so you can reread what’s left and see whether it still makes the case. And a reminder on every result: a technique isn’t a falsehood, and accurate writing uses them too.
October 24, 2026
After an analysis, the article’s factual claims are listed, and Check the claims checks them against named sources. A check someone already ran shows straight away. Statistical claims are checked against the official figures first: FRED, the BLS, the EIA, the SEC, the US Treasury and the UK’s ONS.
October 24, 2026
When an article has charts, Semblen looks for eight common chart problems, such as a value axis that doesn’t start at zero or two scales on one chart, and shows what in the chart gives it away.
October 24, 2026
Enter your ZIP on the home page or look up your races and get one email: where the candidates stand, what their ads say and leave out, and how and when to vote, with a reminder the day before Election Day. Race pages now also show the ads whose checked claims don’t hold up.
October 19, 2026
Every analysis now starts with a TL;DR, then a card for each question a careful reader asks: how it’s written, who gets to speak, whether the claims hold up and what’s missing. Try it →
October 13, 2026
Semblen Pro finds the same story at other outlets and shows the angles each one took, in its own words, and which left a point out. No outlet is rated. Semblen Pro →
October 2, 2026
Sign in with an email link or Google. Semblen Pro adds more analyses and a daily digest of the outlets and topics you follow, with the rhetorical techniques marked. Sign up free →
September 23, 2026
What the White House, both parties’ leaders in Congress and federal departments said (releases, statements, and the leaders’ floor speeches from the Congressional Record) run through the same analysis every night. Every item is listed, flagged or not, and both parties sit side by side under one rule. See what they said →
September 17, 2026
The Facebook, Instagram and YouTube ads in this year’s Senate races, analyzed line by line, with FEC filings for every candidate: outside spending for and against them, linked to the spender’s own ads; money bundled through PACs, with every PAC that forwarded $100,000 or more called out, whatever its cause; and each super PAC’s largest donors. Browse by race or look up your ZIP →
September 16, 2026
Semblen pulls out the checkable claims an article makes, and some it reports others making, and looks for primary sources, fact-checkers and wire reporting. Each verdict links to the passage it rests on, and when the evidence is thin it says “No authoritative evidence found” rather than guess. Loaded language inside a quotation is marked as the speaker’s, not counted against the outlet.
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