I built a tool that analyzes YouTube videos for factual credibility — looking for beta testers
Been working on this for a few months. The problem: health, science, and financial misinformation has almost entirely moved to long-form YouTube. Tools like Snopes and NewsGuard cover articles — nobody covers video. If you're trying to figure out whether a Huberman episode, a nutrition documentary, or a financial commentary video is actually credible, there's no good way to do that right now.
Weirwood extracts the main claims from a YouTube video, finds supporting or contradicting sources from AP News, Reuters, PubMed, CDC, and similar, and gives you a credibility score with a breakdown by claim. You can see exactly which parts of a video are well-sourced and which aren't.
Example report from a PBS autism video: https://www.w3irwood.com/report/5335a0df-1f42-4895-a44f-1f31866b768b
Free to try at w3irwood.com — sign in with Google and paste any YouTube URL.
Would love feedback on:
- Do the scores feel accurate for videos you know well?
- Is the claim breakdown actually useful or just noise?
- Would you pay for this and if so for what use case?
Honest reactions only — this is early and I want to know what's broken.