PIJAlance News Intelligence — Fact-Checking for Newsrooms and Readers

PIJAlance News Intelligence puts a fact-checking desk inside your newsroom, and lets you offer the same checking to your readers.

For your newsroom. Your writers open News Intelligence, Newsroom desk in WordPress and check a claim, a quote or a link while they work, without leaving the dashboard and without a second login. Every check is charged to your workspace, so a writer is never asked to sign in or to pay. The desk shows how much of your allowance is left.

For your readers. Switch it on and your audience gets a way to check the rumours and forwarded messages going around a story: a “Check a claim” button in the corner, a check box you can drop into any article, an optional button at the end of posts, and an optional button when a reader selects text. Switch it off and your readers see nothing at all, while the desk keeps working.

With your workspace site key, a reader’s check runs inside your own page. They are not sent away, they are not asked to make an account, and they are not asked for money, because the check is charged to your newsroom. Without a key, a reader who presses Check is taken to chatniai.com, where our own rules apply.

The checking itself is done by the News Intelligence service at chatniai.com, built by PIJAlance Magazine, so improvements reach your site without a plugin update. A check is evidence put in front of an editor, not a final verdict: the judgement stays with your newsroom.

Everything the plugin gives you

Inside WordPress, for your writers

• Newsroom desk: a check tool on its own screen inside the dashboard, for claims, quotes and links.
• Checks are charged to your workspace, so a writer is never asked to sign in or to pay.
• How much of your workspace allowance is left, shown on the desk as your writers use it.
• Its own News Intelligence menu, with the settings split into “For my newsroom” and “For my readers”.
• A switch to turn the desk off as well, so the plugin can be used for readers only.
• A plain notice on the desk when the workspace allowance has run out, with a link to add more.
• Settings are limited to users who can manage options; the desk is for signed-in staff only.

On your public pages, for your readers

• One master switch that decides whether readers see anything at all, so the desk can be used on its own.
• A floating “Check a claim” button on every page, with your own wording and your choice of left or right.
• The [news_intelligence] shortcode: a check box you can place in any post, page or widget area.
• An optional “Check this article” button at the end of posts.
• An optional button that appears when a reader selects text on the page.
• With a workspace site key, the check runs inside your own page: no redirect, no account, nothing to pay.
• Without a site key, every reader button still works; the check simply opens on chatniai.com.

Help for the people using it

• Oye, an optional help assistant, as a round help button or on a full Help page with the [oye_help] shortcode.
• Oye can sit on the left or the right, independently of the Check button.

Housekeeping

• Scripts are loaded the WordPress way and load asynchronously, after your page content.
• Deleting the plugin removes its settings from your database; nothing is left behind.
• Translation ready, and shipped under the GPL.

External services

This plugin connects to the News Intelligence service, operated by PIJAlance Magazine Limited at https://chatniai.com. It cannot do its job without it.

What is loaded: on your public pages the plugin loads a script from https://chatniai.com/widget.js. If you turn on the help assistant, it also loads https://chatniai.com/oye.js. Loading a script means the reader’s browser requests it from chatniai.com, so chatniai.com receives the reader’s IP address and browser details, as with any hosted script.

What is sent, and when: no claim text is sent when a page loads. When a reader presses Check, the text or link they chose to check is sent to chatniai.com so it can be checked. If you entered a site key, the key and your website address are also sent so the service can confirm that your website is allowed to use it. With the optional help assistant, a reader’s question is sent when they send it. When one of your writers uses the newsroom desk, the claim they typed and your site key are sent in the same way.

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