Crickit
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Real-time fact-checking for YouTube
Crickit's patent-pending app brings in-stream fact-checking to your YouTube feed, so truth, context, and sources appear while you watch, like subtitles. Now facts can finally outrun misinformation. Crickit gives you the bite-sized open-source intelligence you need to make smarter, healthier decisions.
Crickit is built by a Stanford StartX Entrepreneur company.
Trust and Safety
• Data Privacy: Crickit does not store your viewing history linked to your account. Your data, your control.
• Accuracy: Crickit’s search-grounded AI engine has achieved 98.7% accuracy on a product-track version of the AVeriTeC Supported/Refuted fact-checking benchmark.
• Third-Party Reliability Ratings: Crickit uses independent media-reliability ratings to filter out low-quality sources from ground-truth links.
• Transparency: Each fact-check includes a concise explanation, added context, and three “Learn more” links to relevant print sources — so you can verify the evidence for yourself.
Latest reviews
- Adam Leonard
- Crickit is an absolute game-changer. It overlays seamlessly onto YouTube, providing real-time fact checking without disrupting the viewing experience. It has become my go-to for gauging the degree of truth in videos, especially when diving into complex or controversial topics. Now, whenever I don't use it, it feels like something critical is missing. In this age of misinformation and deception, Crickit provides a much-needed layer of clarity and trust. Try it and you'll immediately understand how valuable this tool is!
- Mark Tuschman
- If we can’t agree on a shared set of facts, we lose the common ground that makes self-government possible. And given the volume of misinformation circulating in the U.S., that breakdown is no longer a distant warning—it’s already here. That’s why Crickit feels so valuable. It’s a smart, beautifully practical tool that fact-checks in real time while you watch YouTube. When a video makes a claim, Crickit flags it, checks it for accuracy, and then backs up its assessment with highly credible, established sources—the kind you can click into and evaluate for yourself. It doesn’t ask you to “trust” it; it shows its work. In a moment when so many platforms reward speed, outrage, and distortion, Crickit does something refreshingly civic-minded: it helps restore the habit of verification. We can’t rebuild a shared public life without shared facts, and Crickit is a genuinely hopeful step in that direction—small, yes, but exactly the kind of step that matters.