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State of the Record

Every figure here is counted live from the 763 cases currently on the record. Nothing is hand-picked. A fact-checking archive should be as auditable as the claims it checks.

763 casessince 29 Jun 202688.1% of the 763 cases where it was established

Verdicts

Where cases land on the calibrated scale.

Mostly accurate332 / 43.5%

Partially accurate but misleading177 / 23.2%

Source exists but framing is misleading100 / 13.1%

Accurate72 / 9.4%

False36 / 4.7%

Unverified23 / 3%

Credibly reported but unconfirmed17 / 2.2%

Not yet resolvable3 / 0.4%

Doctored or materially altered1 / 0.1%

Inconclusive1 / 0.1%

Overtaken by later developments1 / 0.1%

Confidence

How sure the evidence allowed the verdict to be.

High409 / 53.6%

Medium333 / 43.6%

Low10 / 1.3%

Claim types

The only category dimension in the archive.

Distortions observed

How often each pattern shows up. Cases can carry more than one.

Omitted qualifier488 / 64%

Exaggeration338 / 44.3%

Marketing as evidence121 / 15.9%

Causal overreach119 / 15.6%

Subgroup generalization93 / 12.2%

Fabrication92 / 12.1%

Date or context mismatch89 / 11.7%

Species extrapolation81 / 10.6%

Temporal overreach67 / 8.8%

Quote manipulation26 / 3.4%

Visual manipulation9 / 1.2%

Where claims came from

The origin platform or input type.

Instagram528 / 69.2%

Submitted image163 / 21.4%

Submitted text52 / 6.8%

TikTok14 / 1.8%

Submitted audio4 / 0.5%

YouTube1 / 0.1%

Submitted video1 / 0.1%

Cases per month

How the record has grown.

126-06

6326-07

22526-08

34126-09

13326-10

Bar percentages are share of the whole archive and are recomputed on every visit. Cases can carry several distortions, so those bars do not sum to 100 percent. The archive reflects what has been submitted for checking, not a representative sample of everything circulating.