Section

Guides

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Guides

Statistics, polls, and charts: a verification guide

Statistics verification guide for definitions, source data, populations, denominators, calculations, uncertainty, comparisons, charts, language, and corrections.