# Verified News Monitor

> Verified News Monitor is a paid API for AI agents from phion.systems, paid per call via x402, $0.006/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-21).

Searches bounded public news sources for literal query evidence and returns timestamped, provenance-tagged results

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://phion.systems/v1/paid/trust/verified-news-monitor?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.006/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-21
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/verified-news-monitor-b14f9f10
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_m6zl8xiuYmXJR8QAUnXHC

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability verified-news-monitor-b14f9f10 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search verified public news sources for any literal mentions of 'OpenAI antitrust investigation' and return the results with timestamps and source provenance so I can see what's actually been reported.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need literal, timestamped, provenance-tagged evidence from public news sources rather than synthesized summaries or opinionated analysis. It is specifically suited for fact-checking, claim verification, media monitoring, and research tasks where citations and timestamps matter. Prefer it over general web search when you need bounded, auditable news coverage with clear source attribution rather than broad crawl results.

## Known failure modes

- No matching articles found for the query — returns empty result set
- Query too broad or too narrow — may return zero results or irrelevant matches
- Source boundaries exclude the relevant publication — coverage gaps
- Stale index — very recent news events may not yet be indexed
- Malformed request body — returns validation error
- Rate limit or payment failure — 402 or 429 response

## How this service works

Find literal query evidence across bounded public news sources with timestamps

## Output

Returns a set of matched news articles or excerpts from bounded public news sources, each tagged with a timestamp and source provenance, confirming literal query evidence found within those sources. Results indicate where and when the query string appeared in published news.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input",
  "output"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "body"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "body": {
     "type": "object",
     "additionalProperties": true
    }
   }
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "example"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "additionalProperties": true
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json"
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/verified-news-monitor-b14f9f10/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from phion.systems](https://www.zero.xyz/host/phion.systems/llms.txt)