Rules
Common source-evaluation mistakes and how to fix them
Source-evaluation mistakes with fixes for surface trust, authority mismatch, circular citations, weak corroboration, bad search habits, and overstated conclusions.
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September 2026
Maintenance
Account and viral-claim verification checklist
Account and viral-claim checklist for preservation, identity, control, badges, origin, reposts, links, evidence, coordination, safety, publication, and correction.
Guides
How to audit a poll or survey story
Poll audit workflow for sponsor, population, sample, recruitment, fieldwork, questions, weighting, uncertainty, subgroup comparisons, headlines, and corrections.
Guides
How to check an unfamiliar account and viral post
Account and viral-post verification workflow for confirming identity, tracing origin, checking links and claims, contacting owners, and reporting safely.
Guides
How to check an unfamiliar online source before trusting a claim
Online source verification workflow for preserving a page, identifying its publisher, reading laterally, tracing evidence, comparing reports, and recording limits.
Reviews
Firsthand accounts, records, experts, and reports compared
Evidence source types compared by proximity, scope, independence, strengths, limits, and best uses for checking events, numbers, causes, and quotations.
Guides
How to geolocate and chronolocate visual media
Visual geolocation and chronolocation workflow using source history, landmarks, maps, weather, shadows, event records, uncertainty ranges, and peer review.
Reviews
Health research evidence types compared
Health research evidence types compared across laboratory work, case reports, observational studies, trials, qualitative research, and systematic reviews.
Guides
How to audit a clinical study story
Clinical study audit workflow for finding protocols, reading outcomes, checking enrollment and analysis, calculating risk, verifying status, and qualifying claims.
Maintenance
Image and video verification checklist
Image and video verification checklist for preservation, source identity, origin, metadata, location, time, editing, provenance, safety, credit, and publication.
Guides
Image and video verification: a practical guide
Image and video verification guide for preserving files, tracing origins, checking location and time, assessing edits, protecting sources, and stating limits.
Guides
Science and health news verification guide
Science and health news verification guide covering research questions, study design, outcomes, risk, causation, conflicts, regulatory status, and corrections.
Maintenance
Science and health story verification checklist
Science and health verification checklist for study identity, design, outcomes, statistics, risk, harms, conflicts, product status, expert review, and corrections.
Reviews
Social account identity signals compared
Social account identity signals compared across badges, profile labels, official links, history, direct confirmation, posting patterns, and platform limits.
Guides
Social posts and viral claims: a verification guide
Social post verification guide for account identity, original uploads, claim evidence, repost chains, coordination, platform labels, safety, and corrections.
Maintenance
Source and claim verification checklist
Source and claim verification checklist for scope, origin, authority, evidence, independence, quotations, numbers, conflicts, response, wording, and corrections.
Guides
Source evaluation and claim mapping: a practical guide
Source evaluation guide for separating claims, finding original evidence, testing authority and independence, recording limits, and writing accurate conclusions.
Reviews
Counts, percentages, rates, indexes, and averages compared
Statistical measures compared across counts, proportions, percentages, rates, ratios, indexes, means, medians, change measures, and seasonal adjustment.
Maintenance
Statistics and chart verification checklist
Statistics and chart checklist for provenance, definitions, data quality, denominators, calculations, uncertainty, comparisons, axes, labels, review, and correction.
Guides
Statistics, polls, and charts: a verification guide
Statistics verification guide for definitions, source data, populations, denominators, calculations, uncertainty, comparisons, charts, language, and corrections.
Reviews
Visual verification methods compared
Visual verification methods compared across reverse search, source interviews, metadata, geolocation, chronolocation, provenance, and forensic analysis.