leadstories.com
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
Measured from Lead Stories’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Lead Stories01 · 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
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
- 9,203
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 35 ms
Built with
- Analytics
- Cloudflare Web Analytics asset https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/vce701823e78c4301a35b7e07294d87301792…
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- Advertising
- Google AdSense page source: pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5779aad7c8d62cf-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms33822379
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS wanda.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=StfmbCV1SM74NAXDeqPJoydXEUVMM0MBVrQtJhylQ94
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace 14/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on leadstories.com 14/20
- Microsoft 365 11/20
- Cloudflare DNS 10/20
- Apple Business · not on leadstories.com 9/20
- PHP · not on leadstories.com 8/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on leadstories.com 8/20
- Cloudflare 7/20
- WordPress · not on leadstories.com 7/20
- Google Analytics 6/20
- Google Fonts · not on leadstories.com 6/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on leadstories.com 6/20
- Next.js · not on leadstories.com 6/20
- React · not on leadstories.com 6/20
- jQuery · not on leadstories.com 5/20