items a day move faster than any desk can read by hand.
The story that needs a correction is buried in the volume that does not. The job is to find the one without reading all of them.
Incoming claims are matched against your published checks and the record. The confident ones pass; the contested ones are routed to the desk with their evidence attached.
Wire copy, transcripts, and social posts stream in. Merlise tags each claim and surfaces the ones a person should see, with the source already pulled.
Each statement is checked against what the desk has already verified.
Broadcasts and feeds are read as they run, not after.
Only contested claims reach a person, with the evidence attached.
Every statement gets a calibrated reading, a verdict, and the record behind it. The ones that need a person rise to the top.
“It watches the broadcast live and flags the one claim that needs a check. We stopped reading the feed line by line.”
Standards Editor · a Fleet Street newsroom
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