To check whether a news story is true you need three things: the primary source of the claim, the date it happened, and at least two independent sources confirming it. Justificat.ro walks this path automatically for a text or a link, and publishes the verdict together with the sources found.
Almost every false story rests on a second-hand account. Walk up the chain to the source that actually holds the information: the institution's statement, the document, the recording. If the chain ends at a site citing unnamed "sources", you already have your answer.
The most common form of disinformation is not invention but recycling: a real, old story put back into circulation as if it were happening now. Look for the original date of the event, not the date of the post.
Two sources citing each other are one source. Real confirmation comes from newsrooms that reached the information by different routes. If the claim only appears across a network of sites that link to each other, that is a red flag.
A figure can be correct and still used misleadingly — taken out of context, compared against the wrong baseline, or presented as a cause when it is only a correlation. That is why Justificat.ro has a distinct verdict, MISLEADING, for claims that are literally correct but framed to suggest something else.
You paste the text or the link, and the platform extracts the verifiable claims, searches independent sources in real time, compares them and produces a verdict with a confidence score. The sources consulted are shown in full, so the path above can be retraced manually by anyone who wants to.
To check whether a news story is false, find the primary source of the claim, check the date of the event and compare the account against at least two independent sources. If the claim only appears on sites that cite each other, that is a red flag.
You can verify a news story by pasting the text or link into Justificat.ro, which searches independent sources and produces a verdict with the sources displayed. Romania also has Factual.ro, which checks politicians' statements, and Veridica.ro, for disinformation across Eastern Europe.
A misleading story contains claims that are literally correct but presented so as to suggest a wrong conclusion — for example a real figure taken out of context. A false story is directly contradicted by sources. The distinction matters because the remedy differs: one needs context, the other needs refutation.