Lead Stories

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.

14 of the 60 sites closest to Lead Stories match.

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   The Intercept theintercept.com English 1 tracker

   The Intercept

   Fearless, adversarial journalism that holds the powerful accountable.

   • Cloudflare DNS
   • Google Search Console
   • Apple Business
   • Google Tag Manager
   • Meta Business Suite
   • nginx

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   Bored Panda boredpanda.com Top 10K English No trackers

   Bored Panda - The Only Magazine For Pandas

   Bored Panda is a leading art, pop culture and lifestyle magazine that is viewed nearly 100 million times every month.

   • Google Search Console
   • Google Workspace
   • Microsoft 365
   • Apple Business
   • Brevo
   • Amazon CloudFront

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   British Broadcasting Corporation bbc.com Top 1K English No trackers

   BBC Home | Breaking News, World News, US News, Sports, Business, Innovation, Climate, Culture, Travel, Video & Audio

   Visit BBC for trusted reporting on the latest world and US news, sports, business, climate, innovation, culture and much more

   • Google Search Console
   • Adobe
   • Atlassian
   • Bootstrap
   • DocuSign
   • Dropbox

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   Digg digg.com Top 10K English No trackers

   Digg - News, before it trends

   See what's next in AI before it trends. Digg watches the people who move first.

   • Cloudflare DNS
   • Google Search Console
   • Google Workspace
   • Next.js
   • React
   • Vercel

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   Cheezburger cheezburger.com English 1 tracker

   Home - The Big Cheezburger Network - Made from the finest of internets - Cheezburger

   You get a Cheezburger, and YOU get a Cheezburger. EVERYONE GETS A CHEEZBURGER. The original internet funny site.

   • Cloudflare
   • Google Search Console
   • Google Workspace
   • Chartbeat
   • Google Fonts
   • Meta Business Suite

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   Mental Floss mentalfloss.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

   Mental Floss - History, Trivia, Interesting Facts, and More

   Learn weird, interesting facts about history, entertainment, language, geography, and more topics. Test your knowledge with our quizzes and other trivia.

   • Google Search Console
   • Google Workspace
   • Microsoft 365
   • Brevo
   • Amazon CloudFront
   • Google Fonts

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   Semafor semafor.com English 1 tracker

   Semafor - An intelligent, transparent global news platform for breaking stories, analysis and video

   Transparent, global reporting by Semafor journalists on politics, policy, business, finance, technology, climate, energy, media, entertainment, world affairs, China, Asia, Europe, Africa for US and international readers.

   • Google Search Console
   • Google Workspace
   • Microsoft 365
   • Apple Business
   • Astro
   • Atlassian

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   TIME time.com Top 1K English 1 tracker

   TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates

   Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news.

   • Google Search Console
   • Google Workspace
   • Microsoft 365
   • Adobe
   • Amazon SES
   • Apple Business

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   AOL aol.com Top 1K English No trackers

   News, Politics, Sports, Mail & Latest Headlines - AOL.com

   Discover the latest breaking news in the U.S. and around the world — politics, weather, entertainment, lifestyle, finance, sports and much more.

   • Google Search Console
   • Bing Webmaster Tools
   • Amazon CloudFront
   • Envoy
   • GlobalSign
   • Meta Business Suite

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    MIT Technology Review technologyreview.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    MIT Technology Review

    Emerging technology news & insights | AI, Climate Change, BioTech, and more

    • Microsoft 365
    • Apple Business
    • Azure DNS
    • DocuSign
    • Express
    • Google Tag Manager

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    Seeking Alpha seekingalpha.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Seeking Alpha | Stock Market Analysis & Tools for Investors

    Join Seeking Alpha, the largest investing community in the world. Get stock market news and analysis, investing ideas, earnings calls, charts and portfolio analysis tools.

    • Google Search Console
    • Google Workspace
    • Microsoft 365
    • Apple Business
    • Atlassian
    • Canva

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    anandtech.com English No trackers

    Checking your browser

    • Google Search Console
    • Google Workspace
    • GlobalSign
    • nginx
    • Amazon Route 53

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    TheWrap thewrap.com English 1 tracker

    TheWrap - Your trusted source for entertainment breaking news

    Your trusted source for breaking entertainment news, film reviews, TV updates and Hollywood insights. Stay informed with the latest entertainment news and analysis.

    • Cloudflare DNS
    • Google Search Console
    • Google Workspace
    • Fastly
    • Google Tag Manager
    • nginx

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    United Press International upi.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Top News, Latest headlines, Latest News, World News & U.S News - UPI.com

    UPI delivers the latest headlines from around the world: Top News, Entertainment, Health, Business, Science and Sports News - United Press International

    • Cloudflare
    • Cloudflare DNS
    • Cloudflare Web Analytics
    • Google Search Console
    • Google Workspace
    • Google Fonts

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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Lead Stories’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Lead Stories uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · 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.