x402

Adverse Media Check (x402)

Screens a person or company for adverse news coverage across 235,000+ sources via Dilisense (primary) with Serper Google search fallback. Returns audit-grade evidence: risk level with documented thresholds, FATF-aligned category counts, top article headlines with source URLs and dates, and the rule used to classify severe vs non-severe coverage.

get/x402/v2/adverse-media-check

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.strale.io
  • URL: https://api.strale.io/x402/v2/adverse-media-check
  • Auth: none required

Query parameters

namestring required

Person or company name to screen

countrystring

Additional context like industry or country (optional)

entity_namestring

Alias for name (optional)

entity_type'person' | 'company'

Override auto-detection of entity type (optional)

Response

Success

querystring
periodstring
source'dilisense' | 'serper'
categoriesobject
risk_level'none' | 'low' | 'medium' | 'high'
total_hitsinteger
screened_atstring
fallback_reasonstring nullable
risk_level_thresholdsobject

Example response

{
  "query": "Wirecard AG",
  "period": "last 12 months",
  "source": "dilisense",
  "categories": {
    "political": 19,
    "regulatory": 94,
    "financial_crime": 187,
    "organized_crime": 12
  },
  "risk_level": "high",
  "total_hits": 312,
  "screened_at": "2026-04-27T13:00:00.000Z",
  "top_articles": [
    {
      "category": "financial_crime",
      "headline": "Wirecard scandal: how the German fintech collapsed",
      "language": "en",
      "timestamp": "2026-04-20T10:00:00",
      "source_link": "https://example.com/wirecard-scandal"
    }
  ],
  "lists_queried": {
    "version": null,
    "collection": "dilisense/adverse-media",
    "source_count": 235000,
    "last_updated_at": null
  },
  "categories_found": [
    "financial_crime",
    "regulatory",
    "organized_crime",
    "political"
  ],
  "severe_categories": [
    "financial_crime",
    "organized_crime",
    "terrorism",
    "violent_crime"
  ],
  "risk_level_thresholds": {
    "low": "total_hits > 0 AND no hits in severe categories (financial_crime, organized_crime, terrorism, violent_crime)",
    "high": "10+ hits in any single severe category",
    "none": "total_hits == 0",
    "medium": "1+ hits in any severe category"
  }
}

Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.