Rules
Common breaking news verification problems
Breaking news verification problems include recycled media, merged casualty counts, premature cause, alert confusion, unsafe sourcing, and silent updates.
Desk
Standards Desk
Requirements, terms and the paperwork that decides whether the work stands up.
Rules
Common synthetic media reporting problems
Synthetic media reporting problems include detector overclaiming, artifact guessing, provenance confusion, false context, unsafe sharing, and vague corrections.
Rules
Common election and political reporting problems
Election reporting problems explained, including premature winner claims, turnout math, audit and recount confusion, finance errors, and unsupported fraud labels.
Rules
Common public record reporting problems, and how to avoid them
Public record reporting problems explained, from mistaken status and missing versions to weak searches, unsupported redaction claims, citations, and lost context.
Guides
EPA Water Quality Reports: A Verification Checklist for Local Claims
Verify an EPA water quality report before repeating a local claim. Use ECHO, state portals, and Clean Water Act standards to confirm what the data shows.
Guides
What CDC and FDA datasets actually say about health claims
CDC and FDA datasets describe populations over set periods, so a viral number usually misreads what the underlying survey data measures about health trends.
Rules
How US political ad deepfakes meet FEC disclaimers, platform policies, and C2PA checks
This article explains how US political ad deepfakes relate to FEC disclaimers, advisory opinions, platform policies, C2PA provenance, and NIST benchmarks.
Reviews
Can you trust a San Francisco AI startup's synthetic media claims?
San Francisco AI synthetic media claims need proof: demand model cards, NIST AI benchmarks, provenance signals, and detector accuracy tests before you cite any tool.
Rules
How US defamation law and the First Amendment shape what you can share
US defamation law First Amendment rules decide what you can safely share: actual malice, the fair report privilege, Section 230, and state anti-SLAPP statutes.
Rules
Common science and health reporting problems
Science and health reporting problems explained, including causal overreach, relative-risk framing, surrogate outcomes, product status, and image claims.
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Common statistics and chart reporting problems
Statistics and chart reporting problems explained, from missing denominators and uncertain estimates to distorted axes, weak poll questions, and false causal claims.
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Common social verification problems and how to fix them
Ten verification problems that let false posts through, each with the check that catches it, from badge trust to copied posts and hacked accounts.
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Common visual verification problems and how to fix them
Nine visual verification problems, from baseline screenshots to detector confidence scores, with the specific check that resolves each one before publication.
Rules
Eight common source evaluation mistakes when checking a claim
Eight common source evaluation mistakes when checking a claim, from rating an outlet to forcing a verdict, with examples and honest limits on what records settle.