What Science Feedback does

Science Feedback is a Paris-registered non-profit association (Association Loi 1901), founded in 2015, that operates a worldwide network of volunteer scientists to verify the scientific credibility of public claims related to climate change, health, and energy. The organization publishes claim reviews, insights, and investigative analyses through three sub-brand verticals (Climate Feedback, Health Feedback, Energy Feedback) hosted on science.feedback.org, with content syndicated via organic social channels (Facebook, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Bluesky) and a MailerLite newsletter. Its technology stack is content-platform rather than product-platform — a WordPress-based publishing layer with Matomo analytics — augmented by 2024 AI tools (Climate Safeguards) for detecting climate misinformation in French audiovisual media and SIMODS measurement studies quantifying platform misinformation prevalence.

The organization monetizes through a hybrid nonprofit model: a diverse base of foundation and institutional grants (EMIF, European Commission, EFCSN, IFCN/Poynter, Journalism AI / Google News Initiative, Ashoka, European Climate Foundation) plus individual donations and pro-bono professional services (Latham & Watkins legal, Roland Berger consulting). Commercial activity is run through a wholly-owned subsidiary, SciVerify, which until early 2025 held paid fact-checking contracts with Meta (2019–2025) and TikTok (2020–2025) to label and contextualize viral misinformation on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. Both contracts have concluded, leaving the organization more reliant on grant funding and individual donations and pursuing new research-oriented revenue lines (election integrity, financial infrastructure of misinformation, audiovisual detection). Science Feedback holds IFCN and EFCSN certifications, is a signatory of the EU Code of Conduct on Disinformation, and operates with 18 employees.

Name

Science Feedback

Legal name

Science Feedback – Association Loi 1901

Website

https://science.feedback.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Science Feedback is a Paris-based non-profit that uses a worldwide network of volunteer scientists to fact-check public claims on climate, health, and energy, publishing reviews and investigations while running paid platform fact-checking through subsidiary SciVerify.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Media Fact-Checking Services

NAICS

Marketing Research and Public Opinion Polling (54191), Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services (54169)

SIC

Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731)

akta.pro primary industry

Climate Risk & Scenario Analysis (TCFD/IFRS S2) (EUAHAJAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

Scientific & Laboratory Reference (Chemistry, Biology, Physics; Methods & Protocols) (EDAGAGAG)

Keywords

• Scientific fact-checking
• Climate misinformation verification
• Health claim verification
• Misinformation measurement
• Expert credibility review

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Platform Partnerships (Commercial): Science Feedback's subsidiary SciVerify conducts commercial partnerships with platforms such as Meta (Facebook, Instagram) as part of the Third Party Fact-Checking program (2019-early 2025) and TikTok as part of the Safety Partners program (2020-early 2025). These are revenue-generating commercial arrangements.
2. Foundation & Grant Funding: Science Feedback receives grants from institutional funders including the European Media and Information Fund (EMIF), European Commission (NODES, FactCRICIS projects), European Fact-checking Standards Network (EFCSN), European Climate Foundation, Poynter Institute's IFCN (Development Grant, Climate Misinformation Grant, Global Fact Check Fund), Journalism AI / Google News Initiative, and others.
3. Individual Donations: Donations from individual supporters at various levels ($5000+, $1000+, $500+, $250+, $100+, $50+, $25+, $10+, $5+). A 2016 Indiegogo campaign raised $30,000+ from 500+ backers. Regular donations are accepted via the website.
4. Pro-bono Services: Latham & Watkins provides pro-bono legal work since 2020; Roland Berger provided pro-bono business planning in 2019.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Science Feedback runs a worldwide network of scientists who review and rate the scientific accuracy of public claims on climate change, health, and energy. It publishes Claim Reviews with credibility verdicts (Incorrect, Inaccurate, Unsupported, Lacks context), in-depth Insights articles, and Analyses & Investigations reports, organized into three verticals (Climate Feedback, Health Feedback, Energy Feedback). The organization also develops AI-powered tools to detect misinformation in audiovisual media and indicators to measure misinformation prevalence across major platforms.

Product overview

Science Feedback is a non-profit fact-checking organization that operates a network of scientists to verify the credibility of claims related to climate change, health, and energy. The organization publishes Reviews (claim verification articles with expert verdicts) and Insights (in-depth analytical articles) through specialized verticals including Climate Feedback, Health Feedback, and Energy Feedback. Science Feedback conducts investigations and analyses measuring misinformation prevalence across platforms. The organization owns a commercial subsidiary (SciVerify) that partners with Meta and TikTok for platform fact-checking programs. A key initiative is Climate Safeguards, an AI-powered tool developed in 2024 to detect climate misinformation in French audiovisual media.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Claim Reviews Verification articles in which scientists evaluate the scientific accuracy of specific public claims from media or social media, returning an explicit credibility verdict (Incorrect, Inaccurate, Unsupported, or Lacks context) with expert scientific explanations. Targeted at general readers, journalists, and platform moderators.
• Insights In-depth analytical articles providing scientific context on complex topics to help readers understand scientific evidence on climate, health, and energy issues. Targeted at general readers and journalists.
• Analyses & Investigations In-depth investigative reports on misinformation trends, platform analyses, and systematic studies of misinformation prevalence across media ecosystems (e.g., SIMODS measurement reports on major European platforms). Targeted at platforms, policymakers, journalists, and researchers.
• Climate Feedback Specialized vertical of Science Feedback dedicated to verifying the credibility of public claims related to climate change, the environment, and Earth sciences, with reviews by climate scientists. Targeted at general readers, journalists, and platforms.
• Health Feedback Specialized vertical of Science Feedback dedicated to verifying health-related claims and medical misinformation, with reviews by scientists with relevant medical or health expertise. Targeted at general readers, journalists, and platforms.
• Energy Feedback Specialized vertical of Science Feedback dedicated to verifying claims related to energy topics including renewables, fossil fuels, and energy policy, with reviews by relevant scientists. Targeted at general readers, journalists, and platforms.
• SciVerify Wholly-owned commercial subsidiary of Science Feedback that conducts paid third-party fact-checking partnerships with major social platforms (Meta's Third Party Fact-Checking program 2019–early 2025, TikTok Safety Partners program 2020–early 2025) to verify the credibility of viral science-related content. Targeted at enterprise platform customers.
• Climate Safeguards AI-powered tooling developed in 2024 (via the Journalism AI Innovation Challenge / Google News Initiative grant) to detect and analyze climate misinformation in French audiovisual media (TV and radio). Targeted at researchers, policymakers, journalists, and platforms monitoring climate misinformation.

Quantifiable outcome

• 665 cases of climate misinformation in French TV and radio quantified over 2025 (average 13 cases per week)
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability2 records

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• TikTokcoreGTM or Marketing Partner · 1 January 2020Between 2020 and early 2025, Science Feedback partnered with TikTok as part of the Safety Partners program to review and assess viral videos potentially containing false, misleading, or harmful information. Reviews were conducted in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.
• Latham & WatkinsminorOthers · 1 January 2020Latham & Watkins has provided pro-bono legal work since 2020 to help Science Feedback with legal matters.
• Meta (Facebook, Instagram)coreGTM or Marketing Partner · 1 January 2019Between 2019 and early 2025, Science Feedback partnered with Meta as part of the Third Party Fact-Checking program to verify the credibility of viral content on Facebook and Instagram. Science Feedback's subsidiary SciVerify conducts commercial partnerships with platforms including Meta.
• Roland BergerminorOthers · 1 January 2019Roland Berger provided pro-bono work in 2019 to develop Science Feedback's business plan and fundraising.
• The Credibility CoalitionminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2018The Credibility Coalition awarded a microgrant to support the assessment of the scientific credibility of 2018's most viral health stories.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Others

• EU DisinfoLab: Brussels-based disinformation research NGO that Science Feedback cites as a partner event venue and which works on EU policy analysis of disinformation; comparable as an adjacent / ecosystem participant in European fact-checking and disinformation research.

Direct peers

• Maldita.es: Spanish EFCSN-verified fact-checking nonprofit combining expert volunteer methodology with platform partnerships (Meta, TikTok) — analogous structure to Science Feedback with overlapping multi-language platform-program work.
• Full Fact: UK-based, IFCN-signatory fact-checking nonprofit that similarly uses expert review to verify public claims and runs platform partnerships; most directly comparable peer given shared model and EU regulatory engagement.
• Newtral: Spanish fact-checking startup with EFCSN verification and EU project grants; direct co-author with Science Feedback on 'Fertile Ground for Disinformation' climate report — strong comparable on European climate-misinformation scope.
• AFP Fact Check: Fact-checking operation of Agence France-Presse that operates as a Meta third-party fact-checker (vital France-based parallel to Science Feedback's own Meta partnership) and covers science, health and climate claims in multiple languages.

Broad incumbents

• FactCheck.org: US-based nonpartisan consumer-fact-checking project focused on health, science and political claims; comparable as a fellow science/health-focused fact-checker, though principally operating in the US regulatory context.
• Snopes: Long-established US fact-checking pioneer covering health, science and politics with IFCN certification; comparable as a fellow IFCN signatory fact-checker, though US rather than EU focused.

Emerging players

• Meedan: US-based nonprofit technology builder (Check / Tipline) used by many fact-checking organizations; comparable as the infrastructure backbone that small IFCN-certified fact-checkers, including Science Feedback, could increasingly rely on for content review workflows.
• Logically: UK-based technology-led fact-checking and misinformation analytics company that commercializes platform tooling; comparable emerging peer at the intersection of expert review and AI-driven misinformation measurement.

Regional players

• Africa Check: Largest Africa-based IFCN-certified fact-checking organization with similar non-profit / volunteer-expert model; comparable peer as a fellow IFCN signatory fact-checker operating outside Europe, expanded via the Shuttleworth Foundation flash grant network referenced in Science Feedback's history.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/ScienceFeedback
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/sciencefeedback

Compliance4 records

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Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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