Start With the Source
Find the original document, official record, complete quotation or underlying data. Check its date and context, then make the record traceable.
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Truth vs Narrative
EDITORIAL STANDARDS
Standards & Corrections
Follow the source. Separate fact from interpretation. Keep conclusions open to stronger evidence.
How TVN evaluates claims, uses images, and corrects the record.
EDITORIAL STANDARDS
Standards & Corrections
Follow the source. Separate fact from interpretation. Keep conclusions open to stronger evidence.
How TVN evaluates claims, uses images, and corrects the record.
HOW WE ASSESS EVIDENCE
How We Assess Evidence
A strong conclusion must be traceable to the record. These four checks guide how TVN evaluates claims, sources and visual evidence.
Facts over framing. Process before politics. The standard applies regardless of who benefits.
Fact or Interpretation?
Distinguish documented facts, allegations, analysis and unresolved questions. Repeated reporting is not automatically independent confirmation.
Explore the Framework →Test Competing Explanations
Examine the strongest contrary evidence, relevant limitations and plausible alternatives. Keep confidence proportional to what the record supports.
Test Your Conclusion →Use Images Responsibly
Check the source, caption, timing and context of visual evidence. Illustrations and generated imagery must not be presented as documentary proof.
Verify Visual Evidence →CORRECTIONS & UPDATES
Corrections & Updates
Corrections fix factual errors. Updates add new information. Challenges to interpretation should identify the evidence or reasoning at issue.
Substantive corrections receive a dated explanation. Minor spelling or formatting fixes may not. Stronger evidence can change a conclusion.
Request a Correction
Use the contact form to send the article URL, the statement at issue and a supporting source.
Send Your Evidence →Understand the Method
See how TVN separates documented facts, interpretation and unresolved questions.
Explore the Framework →RELATED READING
Build your understanding
What Counts as a Receipt?
Match the evidence to the claim.
Read the evidence guide →
What Would Make You Change Your Mind?
Test your conclusion against stronger evidence.
Read the article →
The Screenshot Is Not the Record
Recover the context behind visual evidence.
Read the article →Evidence & Research
Original sources. Clearer context.
Receipt Files
Trace claims to the original documents. Research dossiers connect the reporting to primary sources, official records, and the full evidence chain.
Explore Receipt Files →Data Files
Follow the numbers to their source. Examine verified measurements, definitions, methodology, revisions, and what the data can—and cannot—establish.
Explore Data Files →CONTINUE EXPLORING
Keep following the evidence
Evidence & Research
Inspect original records and the numbers behind them.
Browse research resources →Help Strengthen the Record
Send a correction or supporting source.
Send your evidence →How We Assess Evidence
A strong conclusion must be traceable to the record. These four checks guide how TVN evaluates claims, sources and visual evidence.
Facts over framing. Process before politics. The standard applies regardless of who benefits.
1. Start With the Source
Find the original document, official record, complete quotation or underlying data. Check its date and context, then make the record traceable.
3. Test Competing Explanations
Examine the strongest contrary evidence, relevant limitations and plausible alternatives. Keep confidence proportional to what the record supports.
2. Fact or Interpretation?
Distinguish documented facts, allegations, analysis and unresolved questions. Repeated reporting is not automatically independent confirmation.
4. Use Images Responsibly
Check the source, caption, timing and context of visual evidence. Illustrations and generated imagery must not be presented as documentary proof.
Corrections & Updates
Corrections fix factual errors. Updates add new information. Challenges to interpretation should identify the evidence or reasoning at issue.
Substantive corrections receive a dated explanation. Minor spelling or formatting fixes may not. Stronger evidence can change a conclusion.
Request a Correction
Use the contact form to send the article URL, the statement at issue and a supporting source.
Understand the Method
See how TVN separates documented facts, interpretation and unresolved questions.
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