Standards and corrections

What you can hold us to.

Sourcing

Stories link the sources they draw on. We give most weight to the official public record: rulings, releases and legislation straight from the courts, the central bank and Congress carry more weight than any outlet's retelling. Below that sit established outlets deliberately spread across the political spectrum, so the desk is not reading one side alone. A claim resting on a single source below that primary tier is labelled as unconfirmed or left out.

Source ratings, attributed

Cited outlets render with a credibility chip where we have a rating for them: its coarse bias lane and factual grade per the public AllSides and Media Bias/Fact Check charts. Those ratings belong to those organizations, not to us; we transcribe them, attribute them, and re-check them periodically. A domain we have not seeded renders as unrated, honestly. A story whose corroboration spans three or more bias lanes carries a "corroborated across the spectrum" marker on its card.

Verification

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 labelled clearly for the reader or held back. We would rather be slow than wrong.

Oversight

A human editor-in-chief oversees the desk, can hold or remove anything, and owns the opinion and analysis published here.

Never advocacy, never advice

We report events and explain what they may mean. We do not editorialize, we do not endorse candidates, parties, policies, or products, and we do not advise. Nothing on this site is political advocacy, legal advice, or financial advice.

Corrections

When we get something wrong, we fix it promptly and note the correction on the story itself. To report an error, email desk@gocheckmynews.com with a link to the story and, if you have it, the source that shows the error; we check every report against the sources. A correction is a feature of an honest desk, not a failure.

AI disclosure

Stories on this site are produced with AI assistance and reviewed before publication, under a human editor-in-chief who oversees the desk. Opinion, analysis and corrections are human work. We say so because you should know what you are reading.

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