FactStream Reviews

Facts matter, especially now. So much misinformation and disinformation is promulgated on a daily basis, especially in an election year, and it’s impossible to keep up with it all, let alone check it all for ourselves. This is an excellent and efficient way of keeping up with what’s being claimed by politicians, groups, conspiracy theorists, and social media posts, sorting what’s true, false, misleading or incomplete. Instead of relying on a single organization or getting multiple newsletters and so on, you can get a picture in moments, across the spectrum of political discourse, from the various reputable fact checkers who monitor it, consolidated in one place. You control what notifications you receive: getting all fact check bulletins as they come in, only the most egregious lies, or read a summary by date. You can skim across the top of the ratings, get a quick summary of any given claim, or delve deeper into why it gets the rating it gets from the fact checking source, and all sources are transparent.

Today is April 9th. The newest checks on the home screen are from April 3rd. This happens constantly. If I want to see the latest, I have to delete and reinstall FactStream .
Forget trying to use the search. I can read a fact check and then go into search and try to find that exact same check I was just reading without success. It doesn’t show up in the search.
I love the content, but FactStream is of little use when it just stops updating and won’t let you find checks you haven’t saved even though you were just reading them.
A website that actually kept up to date and had a functioning search mechanism would be far more useful than this barely functioning app.
Love the content. Hate FactStream .

-doesn’t cover nearly enough, I searched Andrew Yang and only one fact came up when there could be hundreds
-I feel like there should be a way to enter a link to a tweet directly and have it come up
-you have to open an article to see transparency on why something is true or not, I feel it would be much simpler to include short bullet points on what’s true and what’s not true right in FactStream
-no option to remove ads, and the overall app design isn’t that satisfying, though that doesn’t really matter that much, but I feel FactStream could reach a much wider audience if the design was better and America could use that right about now

I love reading the posts from the upset conservatives. FactStream is unbiased just like NPR. Each post has an article attached with proof and sources as to why something is true or not. If you are a conservative griping about all the falsehoods in your side of the woods, it isn’t due to bias. It’s due to the Republican Party being a joke now, full of fake news and conspiracy theories. Shut up and do some research before complaining. Reality tends to take a liberal bias.

I am a huge news junkie! I ran across FactStream searching for news apps in FactStream Store. I’m happy I downloaded FactStream! FactStream fact checks most information on social media especially currently pertaining to politics. I have seeing where FactStream will show Democrats as well as Republicans speaking untruths. It appears to me to be very unbiased.

This is a great app for fact checking. I have been using this site for around a year now and I am impressed. They only use reliable sources and I would say they don’t really have a bias I use FactStream a lot along with others and they are on point with there reporting.

I’m so glad that I found FactStream. It gives info from so many sources and keeps me informed of the truth about what the media is providing. I’d give this 10 stars if I could. Many thanks to the people who created this to help us sort out fact from fiction/disinformation!

Before I post anything political, I fact check it first. FactStream has made it so simple to sort truth from lies, without having to search multiple sites. I love that the reputable fact checking organizations that I use, are conveniently accessible through FactStream.

I have waited for an app like this for a long time. It is badly needed in this environment where we are surrounded by data that shapes us well before we are able to distinguish fact from opinion or out right falsehood. I deducted one star because there is room for improvement in implementation.

This really is a great app for fact checking. My one complaint is one of the sources is the Washington Post and you need to subscribe to the Post to read the fact check.

Don’t believe everything FactStream tells you. I was sad to see that it is very leftish. I am Independent so I look and both side. But FactStream only says false on Republicans and post very little about Democrats. For every 10 Republican fact checks there is one Democrat fact check and that is so they can make the Democrats look like they are being truthful. I hope to find a REAL fact check app. This one is a joke...

I love the idea of FactStream but I have constant problems with it! I get notifications but then look at FactStream to read the whole story and that item doesn’t show up. I usually have to do a search for a period of time to get anything recent. And that isn’t
even reliable. Please fix this!

My daughter told me her teacher uses FactStream, so I decided to give it a try thinking it would be a good way to fact check things. I turns out to my opinion FactStream might run by liberals. Most the conservatives information is alway false or mostly false. But everything said about Clinton and Obama is good and true. My daughter’s teachers are liberals I guess FactStream is good for them. I will keep monitoring FactStream to make sure the teachers are poisoning the students minds.

FactStream is great but doesn’t update with the latest news always. My current fact is over 2 days old and I can’t search anything more recent. And Trump is tweeting so I know there should be a lot of recent fact checks going on.

We are bombarded by “questionable” statements all the time and FactStream checks them automatically and gives you the REAL story. A must have for the easily swayed.

FactStream looked promising. However, despite offering live fact checking during the 2019 State of the Union speech, FactStream streamed two checks in the first few minutes and nothing more.

Maybe FactStream was too new, and not adequately debugged in advance of the speech.

For the time being I have removed FactStream from my iPad, and will use Twitter, Google, and major news sources to check claims of interest to me.

FactStream is great, except it keeps using news sources that put the user on a paywall. It needs preferences to filter out stuff the user won’t be able to read anyway.

Clicking on one link pulls up a completely different fact check. Also if clicking a link should take you to the details instead of to another page that contains no addition information requiring you to click on another link to actually get to the details.

Although I use FactStream, I find a desire to search more precisely than available. Currently a name and timeframe without a subject or quote, is all that is available. Some contextual word search is needed or the search time is unduly long.

Hard to search unless you have the exact spelling of names.
I received only 1 notification today and that just won’t keep up with all the lies happening these days.
And.. I am trying to rate your app and it asks for a nick name but Mike is taken!!
😳 So, I have to pick another name to complete this rating - u guys have work to do with FactStream.

Typical news stream that doesn’t like Trump. Negative negative negative to read and attempting to down play ANY successes of the President’s accomplishments. Just another avenue to keep the American people in disapproval and angry. Delete or don’t download and just watch CNN for your “news” coverage and highly OPINIONATED presentation of what they want the people to hear. They talk of cherry picking for his successes when those that oppose him are the professionals at doing that.

Here’s a clue for all you right-wing sheep. Just because you don’t like something the media reports doesn’t mean it’s fake. Unless it comes from Fox News. If ignorance is bliss, you righties must be very happy.

Saw today that you had finally fixed the glitches in FactStream! Thanks. Now if it only works right again tomorrow!

i appreciate that the site provides access to different sources in a “one stop shopping” type of format. The links to the cited sources are easy to use.