Frametra

Frametra is a news credibility checker that reads how a story is built, not what it concludes. Most media bias checkers and fact-checking extensions hand you a verdict: a political label, a "credible" or "not credible" stamp, a color. Frametra shows you why. It measures the structural choices behind any article: how claims are attributed, how much evidence supports them, how language signals certainty or hedging, and how the piece is framed against the norms of its own genre. It is an AI-powered news analysis and media literacy tool for anyone who wants a clearer-eyed way to read the news, check a source before quoting it, screen coverage before a client sees it, or audit their own writing before it goes out. Click Analyze on any news article and get a real-time Structural Integrity Score in seconds. No account required. No political labels. No black box. WHAT MAKES FRAMETRA DIFFERENT FROM A MEDIA BIAS CHECKER Frametra is not a fact-checker and does not issue partisan verdicts. It will not tell you a story is left-leaning, right-leaning, true, or false. It tells you how the story is constructed, and gives you the structural evidence to judge for yourself. That distinction matters: a story can be structurally sound and still wrong on the facts, and a thinly sourced story can still turn out to be accurate. Frametra measures construction, not truth. Every finding comes with the exact phrases from the article that drove it, highlighted in the panel, so you can check the reasoning instead of taking a score on faith. THE METHODOLOGY: JERI SOURCE-DIVERSITY SCORING Frametra's source-diversity scoring is grounded in the JeRI framework, developed by Adamson and Malik at Toronto Metropolitan University. JeRI evaluates who gets to speak in a story, whose perspective is left out, and how claims are supported or left to stand alone. It is the same rigor an editor or fact-checker would apply by hand, made repeatable and consistent across every article you read. The same six-signal weighting applies on the free engine and on every paid version. GENRE-AWARE SCORING Before scoring, Frametra classifies the article's genre: News Report, Opinion or Op-Ed, Analysis or Explainer, Feature, Press Release, or Other. It then scores the piece against the structural norms of that genre. Assertive, first-person argument is expected in an Op-Ed. The identical language inside a News Report that presents itself as neutral reporting is flagged as a genuine structural integrity issue. This is the difference between Frametra and a generic bias detector: it does not hold an opinion column and a wire report to the same genre-blind standard, because that is not how journalism works. SIX FORENSIC SIGNALS ON EVERY ARTICLE Source Attribution. Named sources, direct quotes, and hyperlinked citations per claim. Detects when a story leans on unnamed or unverifiable sourcing, and credits sources properly when a claim links directly to its origin. Editorial Integrity. Loaded language and passive-voice framing versus neutral, direct reportage. This is the signal most people mean when they say "bias," measured structurally instead of politically. Claim Pressure. How much of the text pushes a conclusion versus letting evidence speak for itself. Flags unverified claim density relative to article length. Epistemic Hedging. Whether uncertainty is acknowledged and calibrated, or asserted with false confidence. Appropriate hedging on unconfirmed details is a sign of careful reporting, not weakness. Evidence Signals. Numeric references, data points, and documentary grounding behind the claims being made. Passive Voice Ratio. Whether responsibility for actions and claims is stated clearly or obscured through passive construction. HOW IT WORKS 1. Install the extension. It sits quietly in your browser until you need it. Available for Chrome, Edge, and Firefox. 2. Open any news article and click Analyze. The free heuristic engine runs entirely on your device, so no article text leaves your browser at the free tier. 3. Get an instant integrity score and a plain-language breakdown by signal, with the evidence phrases highlighted in each finding. 4. On the paid versions, run a Deep AI Analysis for richer findings, source-level detail, and exportable documents. Your heuristic score and your AI-verified score appear side by side, so you can see where the two methods agree and where they do not, instead of one number silently replacing the other. WHAT IS IN THE PANEL Deep AI Analysis. An AI-assisted pass on all six signals with specific, quoted findings, an article genre classification, and a structural certificate verdict. Draft Scanner. Check your own writing before you publish. It reads drafts directly inside WordPress, Substack, Ghost, Medium, and Notion editors and flags thin attribution and claim-heavy passages before an editor does. Paste a Draft lets you run the full analysis on any text with no live page, including Google Docs content, which browsers do not let extensions read directly. Emotive Tone Map. Loaded and emotionally charged language flagged down to the exact phrase. Framing Balance. A plain-language read on which perspectives and stakeholders are present in a story's framing and which are absent. It is descriptive, never a left-right rating. Source Library. Every named source you encounter is tracked across every article you analyze and organized by JeRI source category. The library flags two descriptive patterns: a source that appears only in one outlet's coverage across three or more tracked articles, and a source classified differently from one article to the next. Sources can be renamed or merged by hand when two mentions of the same person do not match exactly. Frametra never assigns a source a trust score. Transparency Signals. Measured checks of what the page itself shows: author named, publication and update dates, corrections link, editorial standards link, ownership page, and dateline. They…