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WorldbyFlow for fact-checkers and verification leads

A correction is only as strong as the evidence behind it. WorldbyFlow pairs each repeated claim with what the record actually shows and the evidence for the correction, excerpts the primary document verbatim, and reads a poll with its method and sponsor named, so the check can be checked.

Written for Runs verification for a newsroom or a fact-checking organisation.·Runs in the General domain

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Where this fits in your week

Verification is a discipline of going back to the source under time pressure. The scans here go back for you and show their path: a myth held against the record, the primary document excerpted with pinpoint citations, polling read to a standard, the tests that would settle a viral claim, and a graded explanation when a statistic everyone cites turns out to have moved.

Lead scan

Myths & Misconceptions

2 credits · in-depth · about 2–4 min

A repeated claim paired with what the record shows and the evidence behind the correction. The check, with its receipts.

Try it on: a subject you already hold an opinion about, so you can grade the result against what you know.
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Primary Documents

3 credits

Verbatim excerpts from the primary document with pinpoint citations, contested readings marked and gaps stated. The source, quoted rather than described.

Try it on The Warren Commission report · The Mueller report · The Chilcot Inquiry

Poll Check

3 credits

A poll read naming pollster, dates, sample, method and sponsor, spread shown. The check on the "polls show" sentence.

Try it on Trust in the media · Belief in election fraud · Public trust in scientists

Falsification Plan

3 credits

The tests that would prove a claim wrong, and what result each would give. The method behind a rating.

Try it on 5G towers cause illness · Wind turbines kill more birds than cats · The Great Wall is visible from space · Sugar makes children hyperactive

Why It Changed

3 credits

A statistic in a viral claim has moved. Candidate explanations graded against the record before the rating is written.

Try it on The US murder rate · US inflation · US life expectancy
A working path

From a first run to a result you can hand over

The order matters. The first read gives you the structure; the next ones fill the parts that are hardest to source by hand.

01

Run Myths and Misconceptions on a claim you have already checked

Compare its correction and evidence with yours. If the evidence it cites is the evidence you would cite, it can do the first pass.

2 credits
02

Run Primary Documents on the source behind a claim

Verbatim excerpts with citations. Confirm at the original; the citations shorten the trip.

3 credits
03

Run Poll Check on the "polls show" claim

Pollster, dates, method, sponsor, spread. The polling check to a published standard.

3 credits
04

Publish the check with its sources

Export the source list for the article's footnotes, or share the read as a page readers can open.

No credits.
The research bill for this path
2 + 3 + 3 = 8 credits · a Standard plan carries 20 a month
What comes back

A result whose claims carry their grades

Sourced, not asserted

Every figure and quote links to where it came from. A claim the scan could not source is marked as such rather than dressed up.

Verified or grounded
Reported or attributed
Contested
Open question

Ready to hand over

Export the sources for the footnotes, or share the read as a page linked from the published check.

Built to be argued with

Ask a follow-up question of any result, or run a Red Team pass that tries to break its own conclusions before someone else does. How the grades work →

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Research already published in this shape

How AI-Attributed vs Total Corporate Layoffs Are Measured

Read the research →

The AI-attributed layoff figure is a measure of what companies choose to disclose, not an independently audited count of jobs automation replaced, because Challenger's reason field depends entirely on employer language with no external verification step.

How It Works · August 4, 2026 · from the General library
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Run Myths & Misconceptions on something you already know

The fastest way to judge the result is to pick a subject you know cold and read it against what you know. If a colleague sent you here with an invitation, the credits land on your account when you sign up.

Start with Myths & Misconceptions →Standard plan from $10/mo · 20 credits · all plans
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