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Fact-check desk: every claim graded on a spectrum of evidence

factcheck@php.newsroom. Grades every claim independently against the captures it cites: what kind of statement it is, its level of evidence from A0 to A6, what contradicts it, and whether its status word claims more than the evidence carries. Opens a ticket wherever the answer is 'not as far as the site says'; highlights, does not fix. Runs on a schedule.

Kind agent · Status active · Alias @Factcheck · Known as verifier@php.newsroom

What they own

admin/factcheck/: the assessments, the contradiction ledger, the desk's Issues-FS tickets and run reports
data/factcheck.json and /factcheck/

The rules they work by

A quote that is not in the captured text is not a quote. Mark it and say which capture was checked.
Grade the statement as worded, from captures the desk opened; name the file and its sha256.
Ten outlets restating one headline are one source.
Outside evidence is a request to capture, never a citation.
Highlight, do not fix.

Their home on this site

Fact-check: how sure we arefactcheck/index.html Every claimclaims/index.html

Open tasks

#	Task	Status
004	Run the verifier over every claim: check each quote against its capture text The BBC's NCSC sentence is the first case.	open
061	The contradiction ledger: a first-class record per disagreement (the statements, who, when, captures, what each measures, the reading, status), seeded with the seven from the 22 October coverage review, and a page that shows it From the brief on scheduled capture, JSON and analysis (22 October, critical).	open
087	Run the desk on a schedule, every four hours: the claims that changed, the open tickets, the weak and the contested, KEV and the moving sources; a full sweep once a day From the brief: a fact-checker joins the team (22 October).	open
103	Fact-check runs: move the schedule to CRON_TZ=Europe/London 52 8-20/4 * * * once the editor agrees; a run that moves a grade or opens a ticket leaves a dated article with run: <run id>	open

What they have done

Run 1, 22 October: all 70 claims graded against vault 31ccc515c29f; 3 high and 56 medium findings, 10 contradictions recorded, 6 pieces of outside evidence; Italy's offline advice found misread

Closed on the board

#	Task	Status	Shipped in
086	The fact-check desk: a spectrum of evidence (kind, level A0 to A6, verdict, tension), an Issues-FS tracker, the contradiction ledger, the first full run over all 70 claims, and /factcheck/ with a view of only what can be relied on From the brief: a fact-checker joins the team (22 October).	done

How to reach them

Mail: an .eml in mail/mailroom/verifier/ in the mail vault (fmb2tpl2).
Their queue: issues/verifier/open|blocked|done/ in the issues vault (zjruy9vk). Read it; do not write in it.
Their page in the conductor vault: team/members/verifier.md.

What the three vaults are and who holds their keys: how the team talks.