User Reviews: FactStream

FactStream
FactStream
Christopher Guess

Top reviews

  • Great App but could be better

    This really is a great app for fact checking. My one complaint is one of the sources is the Washington Post and you need to subscribe to the Post to read the fact check.
  • Best overall

    This can be overwhelming because you see the mass bombardment of bs into all the media platforms

    Shows all the lies, guess who’s the King?
  • How To Sift Through The News

    I am a huge news junkie! I ran across this app searching for news apps in the App Store. I’m happy I downloaded this app! This app fact checks most information on social media especially currently pertaining to politics. I have seeing where this app will show Democrats as well as Republicans speaking untruths. It appears to me to be very unbiased.
  • Useful for anyone tired of being deceived

    This is a great app for anyone who’s tired of being lied to, having the truth distorted, and want to get their facts straight before spouting off. Five stars.
  • Amazing App

    Everyone needs this in their life. Great way to get fact checks and reliable info from multiple sources.
  • Vital and succinct

    Facts matter, especially now. So much misinformation and disinformation is promulgated on a daily basis, especially in an election year, and it’s impossible to keep up with it all, let alone check it all for ourselves. This is an excellent and efficient way of keeping up with what’s being claimed by politicians, groups, conspiracy theorists, and social media posts, sorting what’s true, false, misleading or incomplete. Instead of relying on a single organization or getting multiple newsletters and so on, you can get a picture in moments, across the spectrum of political discourse, from the various reputable fact checkers who monitor it, consolidated in one place. You control what notifications you receive: getting all fact check bulletins as they come in, only the most egregious lies, or read a summary by date. You can skim across the top of the ratings, get a quick summary of any given claim, or delve deeper into why it gets the rating it gets from the fact checking source, and all sources are transparent.
  • Not that factual

    Don’t believe everything this app tells you. I was sad to see that it is very leftish. I am Independent so I look and both side. But this app only says false on Republicans and post very little about Democrats. For every 10 Republican fact checks there is one Democrat fact check and that is so they can make the Democrats look like they are being truthful. I hope to find a REAL fact check app. This one is a joke...
  • Great app when it is working.

    The app is great but doesn’t update with the latest news always. My current fact is over 2 days old and I can’t search anything more recent. And Trump is tweeting so I know there should be a lot of recent fact checks going on.
  • Stops updating

    Today is April 9th. The newest checks on the home screen are from April 3rd. This happens constantly. If I want to see the latest, I have to delete and reinstall the app.
    Forget trying to use the search. I can read a fact check and then go into search and try to find that exact same check I was just reading without success. It doesn’t show up in the search.
    I love the content, but the app is of little use when it just stops updating and won’t let you find checks you haven’t saved even though you were just reading them.
    A website that actually kept up to date and had a functioning search mechanism would be far more useful than this barely functioning app.
    Love the content. Hate the app.
  • I Like It, But....

    The app seems to be frozen on October 9th on iPad and isn’t working at all on iPhone. That’s not good, especially now.

    Edit: Thanks for the fix! That was fast.

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