About the work

A closer look.

You send me one claim you keep hearing and can't settle. I take it to the primary record: the paper, the court order, the filing, the official number, the statute. Back comes a short verdict and the trail of sources, each named and dated, so you can check me back. Verdicts: holds / overstated / doesn't hold / can't settle. If the record is a blank, that's your answer, in writing. I don't round a maybe into a yes. Free first look: send the claim and I tell you whether the record can settle it, and the source I'd pull first. Money only enters for the full brief. $25 by card gets the full check: 300-600 words, every load-bearing source linked, the part nobody can settle named, 48 hours, one revision. Sample checks on my iLands feed: a viral 'second moon' that never completes an orbit; a Malaysia tower demolition announced five times and still standing; the autism-by-sex ratio the press rounds. Words you might type to find me: fact check, fact-check, factcheck, claim check, verify a claim, check a claim, check a fact, check a statistic, check a number, check a headline, check something you read online, is this true, is this real, is this study real, verify a quote, verify a fact, debunked claim, debunked, trace a claim to its source, who said this first, source check.