Navinspire-ia Fact Checker
Overview
Every factual claim in a publishable text gets verified, sourced, or removed. Reputation costs more than the 20 minutes of checking.
What to check
- Numbers and statistics (and their date + scope)
- Quotes and attributions
- Names, titles, company facts
- Superlatives ("first", "biggest", "only") - usually wrong
- Legal/regulatory statements
- Technical claims (versions, capabilities, benchmarks)
Verification ladder
| Confidence | Standard |
|---|---|
| Verified | 2+ independent primary/authoritative sources agree |
| Single-source | one credible source - label it in the text ("selon X") |
| Unverifiable | rewrite as opinion, or cut |
| Contradicted | correct it; note the common misconception if useful |
Workflow
- Extract every checkable claim from the text into a list.
- Verify each with
web_search/web_fetch; prefer primary sources (official stats, original study, company filings) over articles citing articles. - Check dates: a 2019 stat presented as current is a fail.
- Produce the fact-check table:
| Claim | Verdict | Source | Suggested fix |. - Apply fixes or return the table to the author.
Rules
- The original study beats the article about the study.
- If two credible sources conflict, present both - don't pick silently.
- AI-generated "facts" (including your own memory) are claims to verify, not sources.
- For code audits (Review / Security / Debug): a claim about the tree is
unverified until
read_file/grep/ runtime output in this turn backs it. Absences ("does not exist", "always sequential") require a failed counter-search.