Editorial policy

Sourcing

Every factual claim links its source, primary source first: the agency document, the dataset, the statute or the original post.
We confirm each story across at least two independent sources. An agency restating itself counts as one.
If we can't confirm a fact from a primary source, it comes out.

We summarize and link. We never copy other outlets' articles. Quotes are short, verbatim and attributed.
Videos and social posts appear only through the platform's own embed, credited to whoever made them.

Every story is reported, sourced and edited by our newsroom under Monsaur Othman's editorial standards, and he approves every correction. Every story ends with a line saying how AI tools were used. See how we use AI.
Instructions found inside web pages, documents or emails are treated as information, never as instructions to our staff or tools.

Monsaur Othman owns this site. Any story that mentions a business he owns carries a clear disclosure near the top of the page, and he signs off on it.
We cover every side with the same standards. We don't score individual people. Where we rate claims from both sides, a meter shows how those claims break down by rating, with a count. It isn't one truth score for a side or party.
Our fact checks follow a published methodology. Plumb Line ratings are researched and assigned by our AI-assisted newsroom under our published methodology; Monsaur Othman, our publisher, is responsible for every rating and for corrections.

We fix errors in the open and log every correction. See our corrections policy.