How we work

The standards this desk holds itself to, and the things it does not do.

What we aim for

• Sources you can check. Stories link the material they draw on, and the public record such as court rulings, central bank releases and legislation carries more weight here than anyone's account of it.
• More than one side of the story. Our intake is deliberately spread across the political spectrum, so the desk is not reading one side alone. Outlets carry a published bias and factual rating, shown with attribution. News corroborated across several lanes gets more prominence than news carried by one.
• A second look before publication. Stories are checked against the sources they cite, by a pass separate from the one that assembled them. Work that does not hold up is held back or dropped rather than smoothed over.
• Labels on unsettled news. Where something is reported rather than confirmed, we try to say so plainly and name who reported it.
• Human oversight. A human editor-in-chief oversees the desk, can hold or remove anything, and owns the opinion and analysis published here.

What we do not do

• We do not advocate. We report events and explain what they may mean, never what to believe, whom to vote for, or what to buy.
• We do not endorse candidates, parties, policies or products.
• We do not present a single-source claim as settled fact.
• We do not run paid coverage as news.
• We will not let the machine speak in a human voice. Takes, analysis, and corrections are human work, always.

GoCheckMyNews reports events. It does not editorialize and it does not advise. Nothing here is political advocacy, legal advice, or financial advice.