Fact-Checking & Claim Verification Methodology
How the GenZwire Verification Unit selects claims, audits primary sources, tests empirical evidence, and assigns standardized ratings.
Our Five Verdict Ratings
The primary statement is completely accurate in all material respects and corroborated by empirical documentation.
The statement is demonstrably inaccurate, completely fabricated, digitally manipulated, or refuted by verified primary evidence.
The claim contains a grain of truth but distorts essential context, conflates unrelated statistics, or leads to a false conclusion.
The claim is technically accurate in isolation but omits crucial historical, scientific, or procedural qualifiers.
Publicly available evidence, official disclosures, and scientific audits are currently insufficient to establish truth or falsehood.
How We Select Claims to Investigate
We prioritize claims based on potential harm and viral reach:
- High-velocity viral posts across social video and messaging platforms.
- Statements by world leaders, parliamentarians, or corporate executives that influence public policy or investments.
- Health, climate, and cybersecurity claims that directly affect public safety.
Commitment to Non-Partisanship
We apply identical scrutiny to all actors regardless of political ideology, national origin, or corporate affiliation. We do not accept funding from political parties, advocacy groups, or partisan super-PACs.