Receipts Please
A podcast player add-on that listens along to episodes and flashes on-screen citations whenever a guest makes a health, science or finance claim that conflicts with established evidence.
Health-conscious podcast listeners and parents of teen podcast fans
- Live fact-check overlays during playback with linked source studies and a short plain-English verdict
- Per-episode 'claim density' score plus a topic filter (sleep, supplements, hormones, nutrition, finance)
- Weekly digest of the most-debated claims across the top 50 global podcasts
- Family plan that lets a parent review claim reports for shows their household streams
A BBC investigation specifically named Bartlett's show as amplifying health misinformation, putting mainstream pressure on platforms that have so far avoided building credibility tooling.
BBC investigation into Bartlett's Diary of a CEO confirmed, creating real public pressure, but BSmeter (a direct competitor) reports only 65 active users and 4,700 analyses total — indicating niche awareness rather than mainstream pull.Steven Bartlett sharing harmful health misinformation on Diary of a CEO - BBC ↗Podcast Fact Checker: Verify Claims from Any Podcast in Real Time ↗
Crowded with near-identical products: BSmeter (Chrome extension for YouTube/Spotify/Apple/TikTok), Doublecheck (real-time live media), Trust My Pod (nonprofit), Facticity.AI, and Dokit all already do claim-level podcast fact-checking with citations.Doublecheck — real-time fact-checking for live media ↗Podcast Fact-Checking & Claim Verification | Trust My Pod ↗Podcast Fact Checker: Verify Claims from Any Podcast in Real Time ↗
The category is already flooded with free tools (BSmeter 'free forever,' Trust My Pod nonprofit, Facticity.AI beta); podcast listeners show low willingness to pay for ancillary add-ons beyond the player itself, and target users (parents/teens) are notoriously price-sensitive.Podcast Fact Checker: Verify Claims from Any Podcast in Real Time ↗Podcast Fact-Checking & Claim Verification | Trust My Pod ↗
Misinformation pressure on audio media is durable: BBC/scientific-community scrutiny, Brookings calling for 'fundamental rethinking' of listener-side moderation, and AI-generated audio deepfakes will keep this concern relevant for years.The challenge of detecting misinformation in podcasting ↗New tool helps fact-check podcasts in real time - MediaFutures ↗
Live audio transcription + claim extraction + authoritative-source verification at podcast-playback latency is non-trivial; BSmeter openly admits a 10–30 second delay for 'real-time' analysis, and integrating as an add-on across Spotify/Apple/Pocket Casts is gated by closed player APIs.Podcast Fact Checker: Verify Claims from Any Podcast in Real Time ↗