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SmartLeaks tracks how news stories evolve — capturing snapshots, detecting changes, and surfacing the edits that matter.
Police Arrest Over 700 Protesters on Brooklyn Bridge
Responsibility shifted from police action to mutual conflict. Active subject changed from “Police” to implicit. Significance: High
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Tracking how outlets covered the Norfolk Southern train derailment, cleanup efforts, and government response over time.
EPA confirms no dangerous chemical levels detected in local waterways
EPA says chemical levels in local waterways remain within acceptable limits
AI Safety Legislation Coverage
Monitoring how proposed AI safety regulations are framed across major outlets as the legislation evolves.
Sweeping AI regulation bill introduced in Senate
Bipartisan AI framework proposal gains momentum in Senate
About SmartLeaks
News articles change after they're published. Headlines get softened. Details get buried. Entire articles disappear. It happens every day, and almost no one notices — because there's no record.
When a newspaper printed a retraction, it was visible. When a Wikipedia article changes, the edit history is public. But when a news article is silently revised online, the original version simply ceases to exist.
SmartLeaks watches. When you add a source to an investigation, we capture a snapshot and start monitoring. When the article changes, we capture the new version and compute a precise diff. AI-powered analysis separates routine copy edits from meaningful narrative shifts — so you see the changes that actually matter.
Articles undergo 20+ revisions in half a day.
Readers see none of them.— Fass & Main, Digital Journalism
SmartLeaks is not a conspiracy platform. Every finding links to a source. Changes are shown as raw diffs — additions, deletions, modifications — not interpretations. We're not anti-journalist. Editing is normal, and transparency makes it better for everyone. We don't tell you what to think. We show you what changed.
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