A verifiable source archive for journalists and fact-checkers

How to keep web sources for a story so they can be checked later: snapshots with hashes, change monitoring, quotes tied to the page, and an evidence pack for the editor or the lawyer.

The problem

A statement on a company page, a post, a government notice: sources for reporting change or disappear, sometimes after publication and sometimes because of it. A screenshot proves little; a link proves nothing once the page moves.

What Vite Research keeps

A snapshot per source with the archived text, the raw HTML and a SHA-256 hash of the content, so the copy can be verified later with Verify integrity.
Versions. Save a new snapshot when the page changes; Compare versions shows the text difference and a change ratio.
Monitoring. Manual or monthly checks free, weekly, daily or six-hourly on Pro, with a Changes inbox and e-mail alerts above a severity threshold.
Quotes and highlights attached to the source, with your note on why they matter.
A public permalink per source that shows the metadata, the citation and, if you choose, the quotes and change history, never the full text.
An evidence pack (Pro): a zip with a manifest of per-file hashes, a printable report, the bibliography, the cards as JSON, the quotes as CSV and the change history.

What it does not do

It is not a legal-grade archive with third-party timestamping, and it does not capture screenshots or PDFs. For a public, independent record also submit the page to the Wayback Machine or perma.cc where your organisation uses it.

A routine

Save every page you will quote as you read it, with the extension.
Highlight the exact passage and write why it matters.
Turn on monitoring for pages that could change before publication.
Before publishing, export the evidence pack and keep it with the story.