Storyful

is a social media intelligence agency headquartered in Dublin, Ireland that is a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp offering services such as social news monitoring, video licensing, and reputation risk management tools for corporate clients.

[3] Mark Little, who had worked as a television journalist for RTÉ One,[2] founded startup Storyful in Dublin, Ireland, in 2010,[2][4] as a service that "verified news sources and online content".

[9] The Guardian revealed that through the Verify plugin, dozens of staff in four offices had access to the journalists browsing activity without them knowing.

[12] McDonagh's team validates videos and posts before adding them to their "digest", distinguishing true stories from those that are not.

By February 2018, Storyful was developing "risk and reputation monitoring" services through which they would source and verify social news, fact-checking it and contextualising it for corporate clients.

[1] They were "developing tech tools" to "explore obscure or closed networks" for their intelligence team.

They "track deviations in social conversations around brands and organisations and catch potential risks before they blow up.