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Lead Stories

Who runs Lead Stories, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest fact-checking alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
–
Closest alternative
Snopes

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Lead Stories

Lead Stories leadstories.com

Lead Stories is a fact checking website debunking viral misinformation on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and other platforms. Our fact checks are used by Meta, ByteDance and others.

Wikidata: fact checking website

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What Lead Stories tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

6 of the 18 alternatives below have fewer, 7 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found
US company
3 tools

  • Advertising and retargeting

    Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.

  • Visitor analytics

    Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.

  • Privacy-friendly analytics

    Counts visits without cookies or personal profiles.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Lead Stories

Fewer trackers than Lead StoriesNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

None of the 60 sites closest to Lead Stories match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

04 · History

What changed

Price and policy history →

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Lead Stories adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack and search numbers · 8 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,212
Vector
384-d
Query
35 ms

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DNS hosting
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