We publish topical, original fact-checks that align with public interest and address trending misinformation narratives.
Our fact-checkers use data, analytics, and editorial judgment to identify and prioritize claims with significant potential for harm. Our experienced editorial team and expert fact-checkers assess the spread of individual claims and the impacts of their dissemination.
Logically Facts will investigate a claim that meets the following criteria:
- It is a statement made in a public or publicly accessible online forum
- It can be assessed as reasonable or simply true or false
- It can be assessed on the basis of publicly available commonly held standards of reasonability
- Logically Facts can only fact-check assertions or sentences which can be interpreted as assertions. An assertion is any sentence that aims to make somebody believe something to be true.
The team is committed to evaluate all potential evidence using the same standards of rigor regardless of who made the original claim or what side of the political spectrum it falls on. The team fact-checks claims from across the political spectrum, but this does not necessarily mean fact-checking an equal number of claims about each party.
Sometimes an otherwise valid claim cannot be settled by any evidence to which we have access, nor could we have access in the future. These will usually be claims which are entirely grounded in matters of taste, historical claims that no evidence can bear upon, or claims of a fundamentally moral or religious nature.
We will not engage with claims where we believe it would be irresponsible to do so. This may be because we do not have the domain expertise, or the capacity to give sufficient context to a claim, which would make any judgment we could make ultimately unhelpful. We will also not engage with trolls nor entertain harmful conspiracies unless there is a clear journalistic case for publishing a rebuttal.
We also encourage users to share claims with our team to be fact-checked. You can send your request using this form, and the team will check if it meets the criteria explained above to be fact-checked. In addition, we sometimes receive tip-offs and fact-check requests through our social media channels.