A headline, an excerpt, a single sentence: Feed any of those into the fact-checking tool Veracity, and its artificial intelligence will provide not only a reliability score but also a plain-language explanation and a full list of sources.
This transparency is what sets the made-in-Montreal software apart from many other AI platforms, which will spit out an answer without explaining how they got there.
The tool was designed by a research team co-led by Jean-François Godbout, a political science professor at Université de Montréal, researcher at IVADO—consortium for research, training and knowledge mobilization in artificial intelligence—and associate academic member of Mila.
Developed by the IVADO research cluster on AI implementation and governance, Veracity was built not to be blindly trusted but to encourage users to verify information themselves.
In May 2026, it received its first institutional endorsement when Canada's Senate added it to the resources available to senators and staff for assessing the reliability of incoming information.
