Proof of concept
Follow a story once. We’ll bring you back when what’s known actually changes.
Modern media optimizes for speed and novelty — not continuity or corrections. Living News tracks how the evidence on a developing story evolves, shows our current read with explicit open questions, explains how we got there, and notifies you only when something material changes.
What this demo is trying to prove
People will care (opt in)
Will readers follow a developing story when the promise is substantive updates, not just more noise.
Material updates feel useful
That strict, delta-only notifications feel valuable; not spammy.
Honest, not biased
That status + confidence + open questions reads as fair rather than slanted. We're not right vs left, we're the current understanding of a story.
Process builds trust
Showing the how we got here (i.e. the changelog with the current understanding) beats a black-box summary.
The demo stories
View allIs the updated COVID vaccine still “worth it”? What the 2025–26 evidence shows
Six years into the pandemic, most people have immunity from prior infection, vaccination, or both — so the real question is what the latest booster adds on top of that. New 2026 studies converge on a meaningful but modest reduction in hospitalization and urgent care, largest for older and higher-risk adults, and waning over months. Whether it’s “worth it” depends a lot on who you are.
5 claims tracked
The first jobs number is rarely the last: how 2025’s job growth was revised away
Each month, the headline U.S. jobs number leads the news — then quietly gets revised as more data arrive. In February 2026, annual benchmark revisions cut 2025’s job growth by more than 400,000, leaving just ~181,000 jobs added for the entire year: an already-soft labor market was even softer than first reported. This is the “memory problem” in miniature — the correction rarely reaches everyone who saw the first number.
4 claims tracked
How we learned that bacteria — not stress — cause most stomach ulcers
For most of the 20th century, peptic ulcers were blamed on stress and excess stomach acid. Beginning in 1982, two researchers in Perth argued the real culprit was a bacterium, Helicobacter pylori. The idea was dismissed for years — then became medical consensus, and a Nobel Prize.
5 claims tracked