FactScopeAdd to Chrome
Changelog

What is changing during the beta.

Public-facing release notes focus on changes users can notice. Chrome Web Store review can cause the store version to lag behind the development build.

Release candidate

Version 1.5.0 — Evidence-first experience

  • First-run onboarding explains what is transmitted and that FactScope assists verification rather than determining truth.
  • Claims and evidence links now appear before community controls.
  • Offline, cold-start, timeout, provider, unsupported-page, blocked-image, and no-checkable-claim states have distinct guidance.
  • Article results use plain-language coverage labels and a compact evidence overview.
  • Image results separate visual manipulation, caption consistency, and visible source clues.
  • Paid-tier and license controls remain hidden during the free beta.
Extension package

Version 1.4.1

  • Migrated the extension to versioned evidence responses.
  • Improved display of matching reporting and broader context for low-reported claims.
  • Kept factual findings separate from publisher and presentation signals.
  • Updated production permissions to use user-triggered page access.
Service

Reliability, privacy, and evidence quality

  • Added signed anonymous installation sessions, quotas, provider timeouts, and cost controls.
  • Added 30-day raw scan retention and installation-linked deletion.
  • Hardened remote fetching and public share creation.
  • Added result caching, source validation, model fallback, and structured evidence states.