Create news? Start by checking the claim, not repeating it
About this check
If you are searching for “create news,” you may not be looking for another headline generator. You may be trying to work out whether a claim, screenshot, image, or developing story is worth believing and sharing.
The direct path is to open VOM and submit the claim you want to check. VOM uses real-time web search and cites the sources behind its verdict, so you can open and inspect the material yourself. The response includes three useful parts: a verdict, a confidence score, and any sources the check found.
The verdict can be true, false, or inconclusive. That last option matters. If the available evidence cannot settle a claim, VOM reports it as inconclusive rather than forcing the result into a yes or no. You get an answer that shows both the conclusion and the evidence behind it.
The same approach can work when the information arrives as an image. VOM can assess an uploaded image as likely authentic, likely AI-generated, or unverifiable. It can also read the text inside a screenshot, so a forwarded image can be checked without retyping it.
That gives you a practical starting point for circulating news: check the specific claim first, then review the sources and confidence before deciding what the information means.
The manual method
You can also investigate a claim without a verification tool. The process is straightforward, but each step depends on what you can find and interpret yourself.
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Separate the claim from the post. Write down the exact statement being made. A post may combine a headline, an image, a date, and an opinion. Treat those as separate details instead of checking the whole post as one undivided conclusion.
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Search the wording and its key details. Use the names, places, dates, numbers, and quoted phrases that appear in the claim. Try more than one search formulation, because a single wording may return only copies of the original post.
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Open the underlying sources. Do not stop at a search result, snippet, repost, or commentary about the story. Read the pages that appear to support the claim and note what they actually establish.
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Compare independent accounts. Check whether different sources are reporting the same event or merely repeating one another. Look for agreement on the central details and differences in dates, wording, context, or attribution.
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Check the image separately. If a screenshot or photograph is carrying the claim, inspect what it shows and what it does not show. A real image can be paired with a misleading caption, an old event, or a different location. A screenshot can also omit the surrounding text needed to interpret it.
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Mark what remains unresolved. If the available evidence does not settle the claim, record that uncertainty instead of upgrading a possibility into a fact.
This method stops working when the original source is unavailable, the evidence is incomplete, search results are dominated by repetition, or the image lacks enough context to assess. It also places the burden of comparing sources and judging uncertainty on you. Finding several pages is not the same as establishing that the claim is true.
VOM is designed for more than one verification format. It holds natural back-and-forth conversations for everyday questions, learning, brainstorming, writing, and planning. It also turns a written idea into a generated image. For people who want to follow circulating claims, it offers local, world, and trending feeds. Answers are provided in the language being used across its eight supported languages.
The useful distinction is simple: manual checking gives you a set of steps to perform yourself, while VOM returns a verdict, confidence score, and cited sources for a checked claim. In either case, the evidence deserves attention. A confident-looking post is not the same thing as a settled claim, and an unresolved claim should remain unresolved until the sources support more.