Fact-Checking

Purpose

Verify a claim by tracing it to its origin. Most false claims in circulation are not fabrications; they are real findings that have been stripped of their qualifications, or numbers that have acquired a citation through repetition.

When to Use

• Verifying a statistic or a claim before publishing it.
• A number that is widely repeated and never sourced.
• Checking an assertion in a document, an article, or a report.
• Evaluating a claim that seems too clean.

Capabilities