For media studies, civics & journalism classrooms
TruthLens analyses a real news article — its claims, sources, framing, language, emotional techniques and missing context — and turns what it finds into a lesson you can teach. Not a template. Built from the evidence in the article itself.
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TruthLens reads the article, finds the evidence and signals in it, and builds the lesson from what it finds. The lesson is inseparable from the article that produced it.
Scan a real article
Paste any news article. TruthLens reads the whole thing.
See what is really in it
Claims, sources, framing, language, emotional techniques and missing context — laid out.
Turn it into a lesson
A composed lesson built from the evidence in that article, configured for your class.
Teach it
Assign it, or run a live lesson where student thinking appears as it happens.
See the thinking
Responses tie back to the evidence — what students noticed, and what they missed.
From article to classroom
No generic lesson template and no verdict for students to accept. The reporting itself becomes the material they investigate.
Start with real reporting
Scan a story you are already teaching. TruthLens keeps the article at the centre instead of replacing it with a generic worksheet.
Surface the evidence
Claims, supporting sources, framing, language and missing context are separated into evidence students can question for themselves.
Turn evidence into learning
Questions and discussion prompts stay tied to the evidence in that specific article — ready for students to analyse, respond and reflect.
Example classroom activity
Who is this article listening to?
Source article
Social media ban for under-16s: who decides what is best for young people?
BBC News
Claim to check
The government says legislation banning under-16s from social media will be introduced this year.
Framing signal
Officials are quoted first and most often; the voices of young people themselves are absent.
Question for students
Does hearing from officials first make the policy feel more settled than it is? What would change if young people were quoted?
Students receive the evidence and the questions — not a TruthLens verdict. The judgement stays with them.
One article. Its actual evidence. A classroom activity students can genuinely interrogate.
Try it with an articleAs students submit, TruthLens brings their work into one teacher view — then surfaces recurring themes, different interpretations, notable observations and a discussion prompt grounded in their responses.
Teacher workspace
Track submissions, review student work and turn the class response into something teachable.
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Enrolled
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Submitted
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Student roster
Open submitted work for marking without leaving the activity.
Patterns, gaps and disagreements across submitted responses.
Common themes
Different interpretations
Notable student observations
Language students noticed
Discussion prompt
Why did some students see the article as opinionated while others read it as balanced? Which specific choices in the text support each interpretation?
This reflects the current teacher workflow: submissions, review and class-level insight in one place.
The analysis and lesson composition are identical on both tiers. Free is limited by how much you can do, not by how good it is.
Free to start — the same analysis and lesson composition on every plan.