A coordinated update to sign-in, comparison, reports, and Deep Scan
Veritas Shield now supports Google sign-in, Compare Mode, an improved report experience, and a stronger Chrome Deep Scan workflow. Together, these changes make it easier to begin an analysis, review how a grade was produced, compare two articles under the same framework, and analyze pages that are difficult to process through a standard link submission.
This is a coordinated product update rather than a change to the underlying purpose of Veritas Shield. The system remains an explainable, deterministic news-credibility analyzer. It grades observable reporting practice and does not claim to prove whether every statement in an article is true.
What is available now
Google sign-in
Users can now sign in with a Google account. This provides a more direct way to access signed-in features without creating a separate login flow.
Users can access the account merging feature by linking their Google account to their current account on the Profile page. This will enable them to log in using their Google account in the future.
Compare Mode
Compare Mode is now part of the Veritas Shield workflow. It places two complete reports side by side and evaluates both articles under the same scoring framework.
The purpose is not to declare one article universally correct and the other incorrect. Compare Mode helps readers inspect differences in sourcing, authorship, accountability, genre clarity, publication context, and visible verification practice. Each side remains a complete report, with its own evidence and rule-based grade.
A clearer report experience
We have refined the report experience to make the analysis easier to review. The goal is to help users move more clearly between the overall grade, the evidence behind it, and the limits of the result.
Reader continues to expose the evidence used in the report. Reviewable evidence edits can still recalculate the grade under the same deterministic rules. This means a user can inspect what the system found, correct an evidence selection when needed, and see the resulting score change without switching to a different grading method.
Stronger Chrome Deep Scan
Chrome Deep Scan has also been strengthened for pages that are difficult to analyze through a normal URL submission. With the Veritas Shield extension enabled, Deep Scan can analyze many browser-accessible, JavaScript-heavy article pages and some paywalled pages that the user is already able to open.
Deep Scan does not bypass access controls, subscriptions, or publisher restrictions. It works from content available in the user’s browser session. Results can still vary when a page blocks browser access, renders content in an unsupported way, or exposes only part of an article.
Why we made these changes
These updates address four practical points in the analysis process.
First, sign-in should not become a barrier before a user can reach their saved work. Google sign-in gives users another supported way to access account-based features.
Second, users often need to compare reporting choices rather than inspect one article in isolation. Compare Mode makes that comparison explicit while keeping both reports under the same public framework.
Third, an explainable grade is only useful when the evidence and scoring path are understandable. The report changes focus on making that review process clearer, without replacing the underlying deterministic method.
Fourth, many modern news pages depend heavily on browser rendering. The stronger Deep Scan workflow expands the range of pages that can be analyzed when the extension can access the article content already visible to the user.
What users need to do
No action is required to continue using standard Veritas Shield analysis.
To use Google Sign-In or retain recent analyses to Private History, link the account you want associated with that activity on your Profile page. To use the stronger Deep Scan workflow, install or enable the Chrome extension and run Deep Scan from a browser page you can already access.
Users comparing coverage can open Compare Mode and submit two articles for side-by-side review. For a full explanation of how grades are calculated and what they do not establish, see the Veritas Shield methodology.
Compatibility and limits
Google sign-in applies to account access, not to the scoring method itself. Compare Mode uses the same framework on both articles, but it does not remove differences caused by incomplete pages, missing metadata, inaccessible source material, or unsupported page structures.
Deep Scan improves access to browser-rendered content, but it is not a universal extractor and does not guarantee that every article can be fully analyzed. Some paywalled pages may work when the user already has legitimate access; others may remain unavailable because of technical or publisher restrictions.
The report experience is designed to make evidence and scoring easier to inspect. It does not change the central limitation of the product: Veritas Shield evaluates visible reporting practice. It does not independently verify every factual claim in an article.