I built an open-source tool that traces public claims back to preserved source evidence
Everyone's an "expert" now, and most claims float around with nothing to back them up. No archive, no provenance, no way to check what was actually said before it got cleaned up or deleted.
So I built ClaimTrace - an open-source engine that lets you take a public claim and walk it back to preserved source evidence. Built it for OSINT analysts, journalists, and researchers, but it's useful for anyone who wants to verify before they amplify.
The point isn't to dunk on people. It's to make "show me where this came from" something you can actually do, repeatedly, with the evidence preserved, instead of relying on a screenshot that may or may not survive.
The protocol engine is documented and structured so you can fork it to build your own implementation or contribute to this one. PRs welcome.
Happy to answer questions on the architecture or where it falls down - it's early, and I'd rather hear what breaks it than hear it's cool.
