For every story it tells you who said it first, how many separate voices stand behind it once copies and shared owners are counted once, who owns the outlets carrying it, what each side says in its own press and its own language, which figures are disputed and by whom, whether it spread on its own or was pushed, and what was changed after publishing. Every number links to the evidence. We never say who is right.
Why it exists
Trust in news is the lowest it has ever been measured, and almost half of people now avoid the news. The usual answer is another feed, another voice, another opinion. We think the problem is different: people cannot see where a story comes from, who is paying to repeat it, and what the other side actually said. Those are facts, not opinions, and a machine can find them faster and more evenly than any newsroom.
So Orbseer is not a newsroom. It is a public instrument, like a clock. It does the same measurement on every outlet in every country, including the ones we like, and it shows its work.
What it is not
It is not a fact-checker. It does not rule on truth. Three independent voices can all be wrong, and we say so.
It is not an opinion site. There are no columns, no editorials, no ratings of people.
It is not a feed designed to keep you scrolling. You follow the countries and subjects you choose, you are told only when a story moves, and the stack ends.
It is not for sale. It is free to read, carries no advertising at launch, has no sponsor, and stores nothing about you beyond what is needed to send you the notifications you asked for.
How it works, in one paragraph
An engine on a small computer reads the press of 64 countries in their own languages, follows official sources and leaders' own channels, opens the article pages, and builds a record for each story: reports, outlets, owners, quotes, claims, timestamps and edits. A second pass re-checks the evidence before anything is published. Every version is sealed into a hash chain and timestamped, so it cannot be quietly rewritten later, not even by us. The engine measures its own accuracy every day and publishes the result. The full method is on the method page.
Grew on its own
US carries out 'defensive' strikes on Iran’s Qeshm Island: Report
38independent voices behind 53 outlets
First seen Anadolu Ajansı · root: P3 wire agency text
Owners: International Media Investments (Abu Dhabi), Eli Azur (Jerusalem Post Group), Mediacorp (Temasek) and 5 more
Carried in 8 countries · 144 reports read
Voices, not outlets53 outlets, but copies and shared owners are counted once: 38 voices remain.
Where it startedThe earliest report we can establish, and how good its root is. P3 means: wire agency text.
Who owns the pressEvery outlet carrying it, mapped to its owner.
SealedThis version is signed and chained (signature fcfc28074cfe…), so it cannot be quietly rewritten.
Orbseer is built by Iternity Research Corp., a small independent company, with no outside funding. The people are deliberately not the point; the record is. Ownership and funding are disclosed on the ownership page, and that page will change before anything about the method does.
What we ask of you
Read the record, click the evidence, and decide for yourself. If you find a mistake, tell us: corrections are added, never hidden, and the process is on the standards page.
The short film on this page was rendered from code. Its soundtrack is synthesized and its narration is a synthetic voice (Kokoro, open-source); no person speaks for Orbseer.
The sentence we are working for
That one day people say of this: that was the correct use of AI. Not because it was clever, but because it stayed boring, even, and honest for years.
