Follow the story to its sources.

Choose a story to inspect its documents, article excerpts and video transcript. Each claim shows its source check, and every confirmed correction gets a dated entry.

Source types and source checks

Public records and guidance
Court and legislative records, regulator material and official guidance. A filed allegation or testimony remains distinct from a finding.
Original statements and publications
What people, companies and institutions published. Good evidence of what they said, not independent proof that every statement is true.
Research papers
Academic research. Check the version, population, method and whether a result is empirical or modelled.
Plain Stories calculations and tests
Saved outputs and methods for the illustrations and tests used in the story. Their assumptions and limits stay with the results.
News reporting
Reporting by established outlets, attributed to its original reporters.
Databases and reference material
Compilations and reference collections. Dated counts refer to the saved version, not necessarily the current database.
Disclosures
Background statements and self-reports, with their origin made explicit.
Visual records and licences
The origin and reuse terms of pictures or footage; these are separate from evidence for factual statements.

These categories describe where a source comes from. They are separate from a claim’s evidence check. Court findings, party accounts, attributed reporting and assumed model results keep their different meanings in each excerpt.