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Actor awards search: how to assess a claim
Actor awards search: check a claim against the body's published list, matching body, year, category, and result; say clearly when you cannot verify it.
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How to Write Newsroom Correction Notices and Publish Them
Learn how to write newsroom correction notices, publish fixes across channels, notify people harmed, and log approvals and channel confirmations.
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How to handle corrections and newsroom transparency after an error report
A practical guide to newsroom corrections and transparency: take error reports, log and verify them, choose labels, write notices, and repair every channel.
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How to verify an unfolding emergency claim
Emergency claim verification workflow for urgent alerts, jurisdiction checks, source callbacks, location, live media, public safety wording, and timed updates.
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How newsrooms verify breaking news and crisis claims with an incident ledger and five tracks
Breaking news and crisis claims: one incident ledger, consequence triage, authority mapping, alert fields, five verification tracks and reconciliation.
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How to verify suspected AI images, video, and audio
A verifier's order of work for suspected AI media is to preserve the original file, confirm the person, check the event, then test the artifacts.
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Synthetic media verification for reporters: evidence lanes and bounded findings
A guide for reporters: define a synthetic media claim, preserve files, sort evidence into four lanes, use detectors cautiously, and publish a bounded finding.
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How to check a viral election claim: 12 verification steps
A 12-step workflow to check a viral election claim: preserve posts, find the jurisdiction, ask officials, verify media and numbers, and check court records.
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Election claim checking: a practical guide
Election claim checking starts with jurisdiction and count stage, then verifies results, campaign filings, lawsuits and official statements against records.
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Weather and disaster reporting problems and fixes
Radar overclaims, stale warnings and merged authorities change what readers do, so each fix starts with naming the product and its issue time.
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PACER vs State Court Dockets: Which Should You Check First?
PACER vs state court dockets decides where a case record lives and what it costs. Federal filings are centralized and paid; state lookups vary by county.
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Elections Canada vs Provincial Commissions: Where to Verify Campaign Finance Claims
To verify campaign finance claim Canada, use the right database. Federal and provincial filings are searched separately, and errors carry real costs.
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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.
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Verify PACER Court Filing Screenshots: Check the PDF
To verify PACER court filing screenshots, compare the case number, filing date, judge, cited page, and current status with the live docket and filed document.
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How to Verify a Product Recall Claim Before You Report It
Verify product recall claim before you report it by checking CPSC, FDA and NHTSA records, not the press release. Questions and red flags for editors.
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School Board Meeting Claims: Check the Agenda and Minutes Before Sharing
School Board Meeting Claims: verify the agenda and minutes before you share. Texas and California open meetings deadlines, draft minute risks, and what to wait for.
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5 Checks for a State Bill Signing Claim Before You Report It
Verify bill signing claim with five checks against state legislature bill status pages, governor veto records, and official enacted laws databases online.
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Verify Statistics Canada Claim: What It Costs
See what it costs to verify Statistics Canada claim numbers—from free LFS data to illustrative software, training, and review expenses.
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Verify Student Loan Forgiveness Claim: Official Sources
To verify student loan forgiveness claim details, check named federal programs and laws, Federal Student Aid, and the state agency that administers the program.
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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.
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3 places to check a Chicago police scanner claim against city records
A Chicago police scanner claim needs three record sets to stand up: Cook County court dockets, City Council agendas, and CPD incident reports.
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How to request public records, step by step
Learn how to request public records step by step: name the office, the record series, the custodian, and the date range before you file.
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Is a TMZ clip real? Los Angeles celebrity claim verification
Los Angeles celebrity claim verification starts with the original TMZ upload, then checks video context, court access, local records, and source claims.
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How to check US Canada border and trade claims with CBP and Census data
A guide to checking US Canada border and trade claims with Census trade tables and CBP data, covering units, source vintages and four common failure modes.
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How to verify a disaster claim with NOAA and FEMA data in Houston and Miami
Verify disaster claims with NOAA and FEMA records: hurricane advisories, storm reports and OpenFEMA declarations for Houston and Miami posts.
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How to check US election claims with FEC filings, county clerks, and state offices
Match each US election claim to its record: FEC filings for campaign money, county clerk pages for raw returns, state portals for certified totals.
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Government Records Verification: Status and Context
Government records verification checks provenance, status, version and context, then preserves the citation another reader needs to retrace a claim.
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How to audit a poll or survey story before you cite it
Poll audit workflow for sponsor, population, sample, recruitment, fieldwork, questions, weighting, uncertainty, subgroup comparisons, headlines, and corrections.
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How to check an unfamiliar account and viral post
Use independent contact routes, platform history, reverse-image tools, and primary records to verify a social media account and viral post before sharing.
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How to verify an online source: a framework
Use this framework to verify an online source: identify its publisher, read laterally, trace key evidence, and record what remains unresolved.
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A visual geolocation workflow for place and time
This visual geolocation workflow shows how to match a photo or clip to a place, narrow its date, and report what the evidence can and cannot support.
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How to audit a clinical study story before it runs
Audit a clinical study story by pulling the paper, protocol and registry record, then checking every claim, number and quote against the data.
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Image and video verification: a practical guide
Image and video verification means separating origin, place, time and edit into distinct claims, then testing each against records before you publish.
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Science health news verification: a practical guide
Science health news verification: trace a claim through the paper, trial record, supplement, correction notice and FDA product record before repeating it.
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Source evaluation guide: mapping claims
This source evaluation guide shows how to split compound claims, test evidence by claim type, trace images and records, and judge source authority.
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Statistics Verification Guide: A Reading Framework
This statistics verification guide offers a framework for tracing figures, judging uncertainty, reviewing surveys, and checking what charts support.