The hype check newsletter for everything

One free email a week that scores the loudest claims across business, tech, money, science, culture, and sports on a simple real-to-hype meter.

You already know the feeling. A headline, a stat, a can't-miss claim, and no easy way to tell how much of it is real. Hype Check Live gives you one honest read a week, the same way every time, so you know what holds up before you repeat it.

How each edition works

Same format every week, a fresh set of claims. Each item gives you the claim in plain terms, a two or three sentence check, the source, and a hype score from zero to one hundred. Low means mostly real, high means mostly hype. Five or six claims, one per domain, in about four minutes.

Why it holds up

Every number is real and citable; nothing is invented. We check claims, not people, so politics rides in only as a checkable number chosen from across the spectrum. The score follows a published, repeatable method. And we credit the underhyped as readily as we flag the overhyped, because honest scorekeeping cuts both ways.

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