How KhabarCheck works
KhabarCheck (खबर चेक, “news, checked”) is a fully automated news aggregator. There is no newsroom and no editor: software fetches stories from the sources below every couple of hours, groups articles that describe the same event, and computes a confidence score for each story. We never write news — every headline links to the outlet that published it.
The confidence score (0–100)
| Component | Weight | What it measures |
|---|---|---|
| Corroboration | 40 | How many independent outlets report the same story. One outlet scores low; five outlets score full marks. |
| Source reliability | 30 | The average rating of the outlets involved, from the hand-maintained table below. |
| Primary source | 15 | Whether the story links to an official source — government releases, court records, regulators, or international bodies. |
| Headline check | 15 | An automated check for clickbait, sensationalism, and opinion presented as news (an AI model when available, keyword heuristics otherwise). |
Bands: High is 75+, Medium is 50–74, Low is below 50. A story covered by a single lower-rated outlet is marked Unverified regardless of its number.
The score estimates how well-corroborated a story is right now — it is not a truth verdict. Breaking news often starts Unverified and climbs as more outlets confirm it.
Media Blindspots
Every outlet is assigned an editorial bucket: Indian mainstream (large commercial outlets), Indian independent (non-profit or independent newsrooms), international, and official (government sources). A story is flagged as a mainstream blindspot when it is India-relevant, has zero Indian-mainstream coverage, and is reported by at least two non-mainstream outlets (or one plus community discussion). A blindspot is a coverage gap, not an accusation — stories can be early, niche, or simply missed.
Check a forward
The check tool matches pasted text against our last 7 days of stories, entirely on your device — nothing you paste is sent anywhere or stored. A match shows who is reporting the claim and its confidence score; no match means unconfirmed by the outlets we track, not necessarily false.
Under the Radar
Stories with strong engagement on Reddit or Hacker News but little mainstream coverage. This surfaces news the big outlets have not picked up — sometimes because it is early, niche, or inconvenient; sometimes because it is wrong. Community posts are treated purely as discovery signals and never count toward corroboration.
Source reliability table
Ratings (0–100) are opinions, seeded from public press-reliability research and maintained in the open — the full list ships with the site’s source code so anyone can audit or dispute it.
| Outlet | Bucket | Ownership / funding | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| BBC News | International | UK public broadcaster (licence-fee funded) | 88 |
| NPR | International | US non-profit public media | 87 |
| The Hindu | Indian mainstream | The Hindu Group / Kasturi & Sons (family-owned) | 85 |
| DW News | International | German public broadcaster (state-funded) | 84 |
| The Guardian | International | Scott Trust (non-profit trust) | 82 |
| Deccan Herald | Indian mainstream | The Printers (Mysore) Pvt Ltd (family-owned) | 78 |
| Mint | Indian mainstream | HT Media (Bhartia family / Birla group) | 78 |
| Al Jazeera | International | Qatari state-funded broadcaster | 78 |
| Hindustan Times | Indian mainstream | HT Media (Bhartia family / Birla group) | 75 |
| Scroll.in | Indian independent | Scroll Media (independent digital newsroom) | 74 |
| The Wire | Indian independent | Foundation for Independent Journalism (non-profit) | 70 |
| NDTV | Indian mainstream | AMG Media Networks (Adani Group, since 2022) | 70 |
| PIB (Govt. of India)official / primary source | Official | Government of India (Ministry of I&B) | 70 |
| Times of India | Indian mainstream | Bennett Coleman & Co / The Times Group (Jain family) | 62 |
Ownership is listed because concentrated media ownership shapes coverage. It does not change an outlet’s rating by itself — track record does.
Engagement signals (not rated, never corroborate): r/india, r/worldnews, r/news, r/geopolitics, Hacker News.
Honest limitations
- Wire services (AP, Reuters) no longer publish free feeds; their reporting reaches us indirectly through outlets that syndicate them.
- Twitter/X is not included — its API pricing is beyond this project.
- Story grouping is automated and occasionally merges or splits stories incorrectly.
- The reliability table is a maintained opinion, not an objective fact.