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Feb 16, 2026

"This might be a project worth following. Have a look. For those who found Sunday's symposium interesting, have a look at this: https://getfactfirst.substack.com/p/applause-for-carney-now-the-facts. At our webinar with Substack Sam, I asked whether it might be possible to award some kind of certification to newsletters with a consistent practice of rigorous fact-checking. He thought it would be tricky to do this without entering an epistemic war with writers and readers. But I wonder if Substack could work with these people? Or perhaps whether they could do it independently? I haven't looked closely enough to know if this is a viable and truly useful project, but it's worth watching. "

- Claire Berlinski

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The Problem

AI creates information faster than anyone can check it. Deepfakes, synthetic documents, and machine written narratives now move at a pace our institutions were never designed to handle.

Misinformation cuts across everything that matters. It touches climate, crime, health, your business, and the information your teams rely on every day. This is not a niche problem. It shapes decisions in every part of life.

The old model relied on fact checking. Chase the falsehood after it spreads. Publish a correction almost no one sees. Repeat. That belonged to a world where misinformation traveled at the speed of print. We do not live in that world anymore.

There is funny…

and then the stuff that is in that middle zone where things get really confusing.

What We Are Building

Get Fact is building verification infrastructure. Think of it the way you think about spellcheck. You do not call in a linguist every time you write an email. You have a system that quietly flags problems before they reach anyone else.

That is what we are creating for trust. Our AI tool, Laura, analyzes claims in real time for news stories and shows what is verified, what needs context, and what does not hold up. No opinions. No ideology. Just evidence, sourcing, and transparency.

No one has time to ask an AI three times to show a source. Verification should not feel like a scavenger hunt. We are making that process effortless and built into the way people already work.

We are a growing community of people who believe trust should not be controlled by a few giant platforms. We are building the infrastructure and the networks needed for this new AI driven information crisis. Every person who joins strengthens the work and helps shape what comes next.

Who We Are

There are many of us behind Get Fact, but here on Substack most posts are written by Wilf Dinnick. Wilf spent twenty five years reporting around the world, often in conflict zones, for CNN, Al Jazeera, ABC News, Global News.

He saw how information, or the lack of it, can tear communities apart long before AI sped everything up. Later, he led Al Jazeera’s global digital.

We started Get Fact because we began to see the same patterns appearing here in Canada and across democracies everywhere. The tactics are familiar. The technology is simply faster.

What This Newsletter Covers

Get Fact First is where we explore the forces reshaping trust in the AI era and how we are responding. You will find:

The landscape
What is happening with AI driven misinformation, information warfare, and the collapse of institutional trust.

The infrastructure
Updates on Laura and the broader movement to make verification a built in part of how information flows.

The policy
What governments are doing and not doing to build verification infrastructure. Canada, the EU, and the gaps that remain.

The argument
Why verification needs to work like spellcheck instead of a courtroom. Why humans still matter. Why speed without trust is a losing game.

Where to Start Reading

If you are new, these pieces will give you the foundation:

“Same as the Old Boss”- Why the architects of our broken information ecosystem are now building AI and why that matters.

“Fact Checking Was Yesterday’s Fix”- The case for shifting from reactive fact checking to proactive verification.

How Not to Lose Canada’s Information War - We keep treating misinformation as cleanup work.

The Mission

Facts should work like nutrition labels. You do not have to love them, but it matters that they exist. Know where someone got that information and decide for yourself.

Get Fact is building the infrastructure to make that possible for newsrooms, governments, companies, and anyone making decisions in a world where synthetic content is the default.

We are non partisan. We do not take sides in politics. We take sides in evidence.

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Try Laura

https://www.getfact.ca/ Our AI verification tool is in beta.

If you want to test it, reach out.

Get in touch
If you work in government, media, or corporate communications and want to explore what verification infrastructure could look like in your organization, I would love to talk.

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DECLARATION OF MATERIAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST:

This group hereby declares an irreconcilable conflict: Decades deploying effective information technology in war zones, around governments, and in democracies by journalists, military personnel, government and business leaders has resulted in wildly pro-technology bias. Declarants use AI daily. Find it astonishing. Are enthusiastic early adopters.

Said enthusiasm creates disclosed conflict: Declarants simultaneously (a) depend on tools that manufacture reality, and (b) spent careers verifying reality in contexts where getting it wrong destabilized democracies and risked people’s lives.

This is not Luddism. This is pattern recognition from professionals who’ve seen what happens when powerful information tools deploy without verification infrastructure. Spoiler: bad for our democracies.

The undersigned reserve the right to be both amazed and alarmed, often simultaneously, sometimes mid-sentence.

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