Document
Product Brief
Issued
2025
Revision
∅ · 01
Reference
PVDA—BRF—001
Classification
PUBLIC
Founding brief· 2025 00 · Introduction

The world is moving faster
than truth can keep up.

News — the notes we perceive, adhere, conclude and derive from the events around us. The brick-and-mortar news mediums have been around a long while, yet they haven't evolved to cope with the changes of the modern world, leading to misleading hiccups.

While legacy media and social platforms try to adapt, they lack the necessary tools. This is where Pravda comes in.

· Public beta · EU & MENA first · Arabic · RTL native

Where the mediums break down.

01

A headline runs. The correction, if it comes, runs elsewhere.

Print and broadcast mediums were built for a one-way flow of information. A revision is a separate publication, and the original keeps circulating — uncorrected — long after.

02

Claims arrive untethered from the sources that back them.

A paragraph cites an official, a filing, a statistic — but the link between the sentence and its source is absent. The reader is asked to trust the telling, not to verify it.

03

The named party has no place to stand on the page.

When an institution, a public figure, or a reporter is named in a story, they have no structured way to confirm, deny, or add context — inline, on the record, attached to the claim.

Every post carries a state. The reader sees it first.

Unverified

Said, but not yet confirmed.

Mechanism

Default on publish. Awaits stakeholder reaction or model entailment against the cited sources.

Corroborated

Independently confirmed. On the record.

Mechanism

Verified stakeholder confirmation or NLI entailment above threshold with second-source agreement. Sticky.

Disputed

A named party denies it.

Mechanism

Stakeholder denial, NLI contradiction with a primary source, or editor intervention. Editor's note attached.

For the working parts of a story.

A · 01

Readers, who want the state in view.

A · 02

Named parties, who confirm or deny on the record.

A · 03

Journalists, who cite at the sentence.

A · 04

Editors, whose notes carry their own voice.

A · 05

Institutions, whose handle stands behind the work.

How Pravda works

Read the record. Or write to it.

01Sign up

Declare your role — reader, journalist, expert, official, or institution. Pravda records who's writing.

02Read

Every post carries a state. Sources are linked. Reactions are signed.

03Speak

Confirm, deny, or support claims you're named in. Or publish your own with sources attached.

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