A media transparency platform

Read between the lines.
We show you the lens.

Paste a YouTube, TikTok, X post, Instagram, or news article URL to analyze its framing, AI involvement, and source context.

3 analyses available today

See it in action

A few real analyses.

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YouTube · Political

Trump, Saudi nuclear deal, Iran war, AI hacking

Commentary · The Philip DeFranco Show

CentreMedium

A broadly centrist, populist-commentary tone — critiquing both Republican figures and institutional failures without consistently favouring one side.

YouTube · Non-political

String theory: scientific validity and testability

Entertainment · Science interview

String theory is scienceHigh

Defends string theory as legitimate science, not philosophy — arguing in-principle testability is sufficient for scientific status.

YouTube · Non-political

Science vs. religion: morality and public policy

Commentary · Tyson/Shapiro conversation, edited

Science-based secularHigh85% AI-generated

Frames science and evidence as superior to religious belief for informing law, morality, and public policy.

How It Works

One link. Every angle. No guessing.

Provide a URL

Video, article, or post, from YouTube, TikTok, X, Instagram, or news.

Lenstrum does the checking

Framing, sourcing, and AI involvement, checked against a reviewed corpus. Most readings ready in 10–20 seconds.

See every side

Framing, AI involvement, source context: each its own tab, clear and cited to this piece.

Most of what reaches you was never reviewed for framing or AI involvement. There's simply too much of it to check.

500 hours

of video uploaded to YouTube every minute (Alphabet/YouTube data, via Statista)

How much of what you saw today was actually checked?

Methodology

The same standard, every single time.

Every analysis is held to the same standard — validated against a shared benchmark corpus and scored against independent bias-rating panels: political or not, video or text, the bar doesn't move.

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Agreement with independent bias-rating panels

90%

overall accuracy on Lenstrum's validation corpus

Rated atPiece level, not outlet

Ready to see it for yourself?

Most tools tell you an outlet leans one way. Lenstrum rates the piece in front of you.

LeftCentreRight

RightConfidence High

This example piece leans Right, with high confidence in that reading. Confidence is checked against how independent benchmark panels would score similar pieces. In a 100-item validation study, Lenstrum's readings agreed with those panels 90% of the time.

Roadmap

Where we are, and where this is going.

Today

Today, Lenstrum reads YouTube and TikTok videos, X posts, news articles, and Instagram captions, checking framing, AI involvement, and source context, one piece at a time. Facebook works by pasting text instead of a link, since Meta restricts automated URL access. No login required, and most readings are ready in 10–20 seconds.

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Where we're headed

A world where understanding how a story is told is as ordinary as reading the story itself.

Pricing

Free to start. Upgrade when you're ready.

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Free

$0/month

✓3 analyses per day
✓Summary
✓No account required

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Lenstrum Pro

$5/month

or $4/month billed annually

✓Unlimited analyses: no daily cap, analyze whenever you need to
✓Your Lens: the only view of your own media diet. Your lean distribution, diversity score, and blindspots, building the more you use it.
✓Deeper Framing, AI Involvement and Source Context: longer explanations, up to twice as many framing choices and missing perspectives
✓More related coverage per story, with summaries

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Read between the lines.We show you the lens.