Verify Viral Claims with
Somiq — TikTok, Reels & Shorts
Instantly audit social media videos and images. Somiq checks claims in TikTok videos, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts against authoritative sources, detecting misinformation and deepfakes in seconds.
Built For Mobile
Seamlessly audit links, check processing logs, and explore historic claims in our fast mobile utility.
The Verification Labels
Somiq classifies assertions under six precise states matching the exact taxonomy used in the mobile app.
SOMIQ VERIFICATION
Six states. One standard.
Complete clarity.
FACTUAL
Matches verified facts from reliable search databases, global records, and scientific journals.
PARTIALLY TRUE
Contains elements of truth but lacks full context, or combines facts with minor inaccuracies.
MISLEADING
Contains uncorroborated statements, deliberate misinformation, or has been altered from its true context.
OPINION / CONTEXT
Represents personal opinion, commentary, satire, cooking, or general entertainment.
INCONCLUSIVE
Lacks sufficient public evidence, is self-contradictory, or cannot be verified.
REVIEWING
Currently being parsed for claims and cross-referenced in real-time.
Empirical validation
Backed by data & documents.
Source driven
Verified, trusted, transparent.
Real-time verification
Always up-to-date results.
See Somiq In Action
Watch how Somiq transcribes, verifies, and audits claims from TikTok, Reels, and Shorts in real-time.
Why Trust Somiq?
Our architecture is engineered from the ground up to support scientific transparency over arbitrary opinions.
Source Grounded
Every verification cross-references verified publications, official archives, and authoritative fact-checking databases.
Transparent Reasoning
We disclose exact confidence scores, isolated claim transcripts, and the direct evidence behind every verdict.
Somiq Protocol
Scientific rigor over arbitrary bias
Fact-Driven AI
Multimodal LLM isolation engine strictly constrained to factual evidence with zero hallucinated personal opinions.
Zero-Retention Privacy
Sandbox processing guarantees media tracks are never stored, user identities remain private, and logs auto-purge.
Trust & Verification Insights
Read peer-reviewed research analyzing the impact of social media algorithms, psychological harms, and misinformation epidemics on public trust.
The Core View-Change & Persuasion Study
"Keepin’ it Reel: Investigating how Short Videos on TikTok and Instagram Reels Influence View Change"
This study by City University London and RMIT University proves that the unique formatting of Reels and Shorts has a disproportionately strong persuasive power to alter individual worldviews. It found that short videos bypass critical validation steps, causing serendipitous belief shifts.
- •Lowers critical cognitive barriers to verify claims.
- •First-person perspective acts as a heuristic shortcut to trust.
- •Alters personal/political worldviews passively via personalized feeds.
- •Design triggers dopamine responses that mimic dependency behaviors.
The Mental Health & "Self-Diagnosis" Epidemic
"Navigating the Maze of Social Media Disinformation on Psychiatric Illness"
An observational study of 1,000 TikTok videos across 16 countries. It revealed that 22% of top-performing psychiatric videos contain misleading content, leading to dangerous self-diagnosis from rapid soundbites and avoiding evidence-based treatments.
- •Dilutes clinical language (e.g., misusing 'gaslighting', 'trauma').
- •Encourages dangerous self-diagnosis of neurodevelopmental disorders.
- •Promotes unproven quick-fixes and fake cures (like dietary supplements).
- •Causes clinical avoidance, discouraging professional therapy and medication.
The Synthetic Audio & Deepfake Threat
"Decoding Deepfakes: How Synthetic Audio Anomaly Detection Isolates Cloned Voices"
Voice cloning technologies have evolved to clone human speech with under three seconds of reference audio. Discover how Somiq detects synthetic audio anomalies through neural checks and frequency spectrum analysis.
- •Generates realistic cloned speech with under 3 seconds of audio.
- •Phase inconsistencies and neural vocoder artifacts are invisible to human ears.
- •Forces detection of spectral anomalies and transient glitches.
- •Detects voice cloning scams and synthetic political speeches.
Frequently Asked Questions
Coming Soon
Explore the upcoming security expansions, integrations, and logic tools planned on our roadmap.
Multimodal Video Audit
Analyze visual frames, check text overlays, evaluate contextual metadata, and cross-reference on-screen actions alongside raw audio tracks.
Chat Bot & Extension
Verify claims directly inside your favorite messaging apps. Forward any social media video link to our WhatsApp bot or verify instantly via our browser extension.
Deepfake Audio Alert
Leverage speech diagnostics and voiceprint modeling to flag synthetic voice-cloning artifacts and deepfake audio voiceovers.
Live Fact-Checking
Route live audio streams from press conferences or events to instantly transcribe, isolate, and audit claims against trusted databases.