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Fact-Check a YouTube Video

Paste a YouTube link and QuickTube pulls out the video's significant factual claims and assesses each one, drawing on web search for recent information where available. You get a verdict, a confidence score and an explanation per claim. Try it without an account: you get 30 free AI generations.

How it works

  1. 1

    Paste the video link

    News segments, commentary, explainers, interviews: any public YouTube video with captions.

  2. 2

    Open the Fact Check tab

    The AI reads the transcript and picks out the claims that can actually be verified.

  3. 3

    Read the verdicts

    Each claim is marked true, false, misleading, partially true or unverifiable, with the reasoning behind it.

What you get

Claims, not opinions

Statistics, historical and scientific claims, who said or did what, and cause-and-effect claims. Opinions and predictions are left out.

Told to look for recent information

The AI is instructed to weigh each claim against the latest information it can reach, using web search where available, and to explain its reasoning.

Five possible verdicts

True, false, misleading, partially true or unverifiable, each with a confidence score and an explanation.

Bias score

A separate Bias Score view rates the political leaning of the video’s language and framing, and can rewrite it in neutral terms.

What an AI fact check can and can’t tell you

A fact check is a starting point, not a final ruling. It is good at flagging the claims worth a second look and pointing out where a number or quote looks doubtful. It can be wrong, especially on very recent events or on claims that depend on context the transcript doesn’t carry. Read the explanation for any verdict that matters to you and follow up with primary sources.

The fact checker reads the first 100,000 characters of the transcript, roughly two hours of speech, so on a longer video the claims near the end are not covered. A fact check costs 5 credits.

Frequently asked questions

How does the YouTube fact checker work?

QuickTube's AI picks out the significant factual claims in the transcript (statistics, historical and scientific claims, who said what) and assesses each one, drawing on web search for recent information where available. Every claim gets a verdict of true, false, misleading, partially true or unverifiable, a confidence score and an explanation. Opinions and predictions are skipped. A fact check costs 5 credits.

Is QuickTube free?

Fetching and downloading YouTube transcripts in the QuickTube web app is free and needs no account. AI features such as summaries, highlights, quizzes and chat use credits. Visitors without an account get 30 free AI generations, and new accounts receive 400 free credits after verifying their email. More credits are available as one-time packs, with no subscription.

Which YouTube videos work?

Any public YouTube video that has captions, whether uploaded by the creator or auto-generated by YouTube. Private videos and videos with captions turned off cannot be transcribed.

Do I need an account?

No. You can fetch transcripts and try the AI features without signing up. Creating a free account adds 400 credits once you verify your email, saves your analysis history, and lets you share analyses and use the API.

Can AI agents use QuickTube?

Yes. QuickTube has a REST API and an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, installable with "pip install quicktube-mcp", that let tools such as Claude Code and Claude Desktop fetch transcripts, summarize videos and generate quizzes. Fetching a transcript through the API costs 1 credit.

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