Guides
Plain answers, with sources.
Reference pages on the problems Alethman works on: reading the news as evidence, false claims and how to answer them, joining scattered records, and stopping bad payments. Each one is useful whether or not you ever use Alethman.
- Explainer What is Alethman? Alethman is a news intelligence company, founded in 2026 and based in Cerritos, California. It reads news coverage across countries, groups it by event, and shows where the story splits and who is carrying each version. Read
- Explainer What is news intelligence? News intelligence is the practice of reading news coverage as evidence: grouping reports by event, tracking how attention moves, and seeing where outlets disagree, rather than counting mentions. Read
- Comparison News intelligence, media monitoring and social listening: what each one measures Media monitoring counts mentions, social listening reads social platforms, narrative-intelligence tools look for harmful narratives online, and news intelligence reads news coverage by event. They answer different questions. Read
- Explainer Misinformation, disinformation and malinformation: the difference Misinformation is false and shared without intent to harm. Disinformation is false and shared deliberately to harm. Malinformation is genuine but used to harm. The definitions come from a 2017 Council of Europe report. Read
- Guide How to respond to a false claim about your organization Find it early, establish what the record says, answer with sources, and decide where to answer. Speed matters, but an answer that cannot be checked does more harm than a late one. Read
- Explainer What is a coverage split, and how do you spot one? A coverage split is when independent news outlets report the same event as two or more incompatible stories. You spot one by stating the central claim in one sentence and seeing where each outlet stands on it. Read
- Explainer Wire copy and independent sources: why counting articles misleads Many news articles are the same agency report reprinted under different mastheads. Counting them as separate sources makes a story look more widely and independently reported than it is. Read
- Explainer Record fusion and entity resolution, explained Entity resolution decides when records in different systems refer to the same person, company or item. Record fusion builds on it to put everything known about that entity in one place, with the reason for every match. Read
- Explainer Improper payments and payment integrity: what they are An improper payment is one that should not have been made or was made in the wrong amount. Payment integrity is the work of catching them, ideally before the money leaves. GAO estimates US federal improper payments at about $186 billion in fiscal year 2025. Read
- Guide Questions to ask before you buy a news or narrative intelligence tool Ask what it reads, how it counts, whether you can check every number, who makes the call, what it will not do, and where your data goes. Read
Every term these guides use is defined in the glossary. For worked examples on real stories, see the coverage briefs.
See it on the stories you follow.
Alethman reads national news across countries, groups it by event and shows where the story splits, with every number linked to its sources.