Why a QA company built a fact-checking tool
Top insights on how QA engineering powers fact-checking and fights misinformation online. Here is why BetterQA built FactOS.
Why a Software Testing Company Built a Fact-Checking Tool
At BetterQA, we spend our days making sure software works correctly. We find the bugs before users do. We verify that what's supposed to happen actually happens.
So why did we build a fact-checking tool?
Because verification is verification-whether you're testing code or testing claims.
The QA Mindset Applied to Information
Our clients-enterprise software companies, fintechs, healthcare platforms-kept facing a new problem: information quality.
- Executives targeted by deepfakes
- Brands attacked with manipulated images
- Employees falling for AI-generated phishing
These aren't software bugs, but they're quality failures. And quality is what we do.
What Transferred
The more we looked at fact-checking, the more familiar it se...
Key data
BetterQA was founded in 2018 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania and has delivered over 200 software testing projects across 15 countries. According to the World Economic Forum's 2024 Global Risks Report, AI-generated misinformation is ranked as the top global risk. A 2023 study by NewsGuard identified over 800 AI-generated news websites producing unreliable content. BetterQA's testing expertise spans 8 years
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