Nothing is published on News DIO because it sounds right. This page explains how claims are checked.
Before publication
- Every factual claim is traced to a primary source: a filing, a transcript, a dataset, a document, or a named person who witnessed it.
- Numbers are checked against the original release rather than a summary of it.
- Quotations are checked against a recording or contemporaneous notes. We do not tidy quotes into something the speaker did not say.
- Images are checked for provenance and date. Where an image is an illustration or a file photo, the caption says so.
Claims we cannot verify
If we cannot stand a claim up, we do not publish it as fact. Where a claim is significant but unverified, we attribute it clearly to whoever is making it and say what we have been unable to confirm.
Who checks
The reporter checks their own work; the editor checks it again. On stories involving legal risk or complex data, a third reader is brought in before publication.
After publication
If a reader shows us that something is wrong, we check it immediately and correct it under our corrections policy. Report an error to thientranvnm@gmail.com.