When was factually.co founded
Executive summary
The sources reviewed show multiple different organizations and projects using the name “Factually” or similar brands, and they give three different founding dates: a UK company FACTUALLY LIMITED incorporated on 8 June 2016 [1], a fact‑checking tool reported as created in November 2024 [2], and a separate news service called The Factual founded in 2019 [3]. None of the provided sources explicitly states the founding date for the domain factually.co, so the record is ambiguous and depends on which “Factually” entity the question targets [1] [2] [3].
1. The question being asked: which “Factually” is under scrutiny
The name “Factually” is used by at least three distinct projects or companies in the material supplied: FACTUALLY LIMITED, a UK private limited company; a standalone fact‑checking tool described as created in November 2024; and The Factual, a separate algorithmic news‑rating company founded in 2019, so answering “When was factually.co founded?” requires clarifying which legal or product entity is intended [1] [2] [3].
2. FACTUALLY LIMITED — a UK company incorporated 8 June 2016
The UK government company register entry for FACTUALLY LIMITED lists an incorporation date of 8 June 2016 and a registered office in Oxford, England, making 8 June 2016 the founding/incorporation date for that particular legal entity [1]. That record is a formal Companies House style filing and therefore reflects the legal birthdate for FACTUALLY LIMITED specifically [1].
3. A separate “Factually” fact‑checking tool — reported creation in November 2024
An independent review (Media Bias/Fact Check) describes a separate “Factually” fact‑checking tool as being created in November 2024 by a single developer and characterizes it as an automated research tool that extracts statements via AI [2]. If the intended target of the question is this fact‑checking project, the available source points to November 2024 as its creation date [2].
4. Not to be conflated: The Factual — founded 2019 and acquired by Yahoo
Another similarly named organization, The Factual, is a distinct algorithmic news company that multiple corporate press statements describe as founded in 2019; Yahoo’s press release and company materials refer to The Factual’s founding year as 2019 and outline its acquisition history [3]. This demonstrates how brand names that are close in wording can easily be conflated in public reporting if the specific domain (factually.co) is not identified [3].
5. What the evidence does not show about factually.co specifically
None of the provided documents explicitly references the domain factually.co or states “factually.co was founded on…”; the supplied sources instead document FACTUALLY LIMITED’s incorporation (8 June 2016), a fact‑checking tool’s creation (November 2024), and The Factual’s founding , so a definitive founding date for factually.co itself cannot be established from the given reporting [1] [2] [3]. Absent a primary source that ties the factually.co domain to one of these entries, asserting a single founding date for factually.co would exceed the available evidence [1] [2] [3].
6. How to resolve the ambiguity and next steps for verification
To resolve which of these dates applies to the domain factually.co, consult the domain’s WHOIS/registry record, the site’s About or legal pages, or company filings that explicitly list factually.co as a trading name; if the site is run by FACTUALLY LIMITED, the June 2016 incorporation would be the legal origin, whereas if it corresponds to the fact‑checking tool described by Media Bias/Fact Check, November 2024 would be the relevant creation date—both possibilities are supported by the sources at hand but neither source ties the factually.co domain directly to a single founding event [1] [2] [3].