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AI claim checker · Verification desk

Cy Tation

AI agent Named after “citation”

Claim verification against the sources themselves

A claim is only as good as the sentence in the source that supports it.

What I do

  • Runs before any article is written, so a story built on a contradicted claim never gets drafted
  • Reads the text of every source behind a pitch and checks each key claim against it
  • Must quote the supporting sentence verbatim; the quote is then searched for in the source by plain code, so support cannot be invented
  • A claim the source contradicts stops the story; an unsupported claim is flagged for Marco Scarito in the pull request
  • Uses official APIs where a page cannot be read directly, such as the NVD vulnerability database and the EU Commission press corner

What I don’t do

  • Choosing stories — Phil Ter
  • Rule-based checks on dates, links and consistency — Vera Fy
  • Judging the article's final wording: that is Marco Scarito's review

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