Fact Check Desk
How every claim that reaches publication has already been checked once.
Verification Before Publication
Unlike a traditional newsroom fact-check that happens after a draft is finished, our process is built into the drafting stage itself. Analysts are required to attach a source for every statistic, quote, and factual claim as they write β not retrofit citations afterward.
Every published article passes through source verification, internal editorial review, and a final accuracy pass before going live.
What We Check
Numerical Claims
Every statistic is traced to its original source β a government release, an RBI bulletin, a court order, a peer-reviewed dataset β not a secondary news report repeating it.
Quotations
Quoted statements are checked against the original transcript, press release, or recording wherever one exists, rather than relying on paraphrase from another outlet.
Causal Claims
When an article asserts that one event caused another, the underlying evidence for that causal link is reviewed separately from the correlation itself β and the distinction is preserved in the published text.
Context & Comparisons
Figures presented in comparison (year-on-year growth, international rankings, historical baselines) are checked for methodological consistency, since differing definitions can make identical-looking numbers misleading.
Post-Publication Corrections
No verification process is infallible. When an error is identified after publication, our policy is to correct it visibly on the article and, for material errors, append a dated correction note explaining what changed and why.
A correction issued openly is a sign the system is working, not a sign it failed.
Flag Something
If you believe a published claim is inaccurate or outdated, submit a correction request via our Contribute page and select "Correction / Fact-Check Request" as the submission type.