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A calmer way to look at a fight

Fairview does not tell you who won. It tries to show you the fairest version of each side, what they care about, and where they actually disagree.

Paste a heated post, an op-ed, a group chat, or a public link. You get two or more columns: each side’s strongest case, the values behind it, and the best evidence it can honestly claim. Then you get the common ground, and a plain account of the real disagreement — facts, values, and definitions, kept separate.

Tap any claim to open a drilldown: what it actually says, the best evidence for it, the best evidence against it, a plain verdict, and the narrower version that still holds up. If a source is missing, you will see “no source found yet.” Signed-in users can submit a link; Fairview fetches the page and checks whether it is real and whether it actually supports the claim. User-submitted links are labeled separately from anything found in the original breakdown.

When you are done, you can stamp the finished page with LightDrawer. That sends a fingerprint of the breakdown (not the full text) so you get a receipt that this version existed, unchanged, at a particular time.

Accounts are optional and stay on this site: an email one-time code, no password, no outside login company. There are daily limits and a monthly spending cap so the project cannot run away with itself.

There are no ads and no analytics. The text you paste is sent to this site, and to xAI (the company that makes Grok) so Grok can write the breakdown in one pass. It is not sold, and it is not used to build a profile of you.

Fairview is built by Joe Ball and released under the MIT License.

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