PressPause — a 'before you share' mobile app that scores any link, video, or screenshot for credibility and emotional manipulation
A mobile-first social-media companion: paste a link or screenshot a tweet/headline, and PressPause gives you a 10-second verdict on whether it's worth sharing — with the specific claims verified and the emotional/manipulation tactics flagged.
Social-media-active adults who want to stop amplifying junk without becoming a full-time fact-checker
- Share-sheet integration: send any link to PressPause and get a credibility card back in 10 seconds
- Screenshot mode: snap a tweet or headline, get claims extracted and verified on the spot
- Manipulation-tactic flags: 'fear framing', 'fake urgency', 'misleading stat' — not just true/false
- Auto-rewrites your share with a verification badge so your network sees the receipts
Platforms still reward outrage and unverified claims; an external 'pause button' that lives in the share flow gives users friction *before* they amplify something — a behavior change product, not just a fact-check product.
Growing consumer awareness of viral misinformation is driving real demand; news literacy is a top-of-mind concern
Most fact-check tools are web-first and academic-feeling; few live inside the share flow on mobile
Freemium with paid premium; also B2B2C partnerships with browsers and OS vendors
Misinformation is a durable, multi-decade problem; behavior-change tools can compound
Mobile share-extension + LLM + search is well-understood; the repo demonstrates the back-end