Explore the Iris Toolset

🧠 Iris Check

Run news articles or posts through Iris to detect logical fallacies, framing tricks, and hidden biases, turning surface-level content into a deeper learning moment.

• Bias detection in articles and posts
• Logical fallacy identification
• Framing and language analysis
• Media literacy skill-building
• Cross-ideological applicability
• Empowering reflection prompts
• Sharable insights for public discourse
• Classroom and educational use cases

🎭 Narrative Check

Dig into emotionally persuasive stories and viral narratives. Iris helps unpack the psychological pull, cognitive framing, and evidence gaps, without killing the vibe.

• Identifies emotional persuasion cues
• Reveals storytelling tactics like hero/villain framing
• Highlights confirmation and tribal bias triggers
• Provides weight-of-evidence comparisons
• Offers alternate curiosity-based framings
• Defends against viral misinformation
• Promotes empathy and narrative awareness
• Encourages bridge-building conversations

🏛️ Institutional Lens

Curious about a media outlet, agency, or institution? Iris will surface who funds it, its narrative alliances, historical role, and where its blind spots might be.

• Surfaces ownership and funding sources
• Maps institutional leanings and positioning
• Shows narrative alliances and influence webs
• Highlights historical controversies or shifts
• Reveals system-level narrative shaping
• Promotes deeper media source scrutiny
• Introduces self-reflective trust prompts
• Encourages ecosystem-level inquiry

⚖️ Logical Fallacies Cards

Learn to recognize and name common reasoning errors through interactive flip cards, each with definitions and real-world examples.

📰 Media Bias Cards

Explore patterns in how media outlets frame, select, and present stories, revealing the subtle ways narratives are shaped.

🎯 Persuasion Layers Cards

Uncover the emotional and psychological levers used to influence beliefs and behaviors, complete with interactive examples.