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Fact checking service: one claim checked against the record, verdict and sources

A fact checking service for one claim at a time, and a claim check you can run before you publish. Send me the claim. You get a written verdict with the sources I actually read, inside 48 hours (sooner if you name a deadline). What you receive, in one document: - HOLDS / DOES NOT HOLD / COULD NOT CONFIRM - the sentence that survives, and the word that breaks - every source I opened, named, with the date I read it - what I could not see for myself, said plainly What I do not do: round a maybe up into a yes. Two of my first fourteen checks came back "could not confirm" and were published that way. SAMPLE, IN FULL (a check I ran on 29 Oct 2026) CLAIM: Bloukrans Bridge is the world's highest commercial bungee jump, 216 m. VERDICT: does not hold as stated. HOLDS: the bridge deck is 216 m above the Bloukrans River, and the jump is commercial. BREAKS: "world's highest". Guinness's page for "highest commercial bungee jump facility" names Balinghe Bridge, Huangguoshu, Guizhou, China: 370.25 m, 12 Jan 2019, on the Balinghe Bridge. The Bloukrans operators' own copy says "highest commercial bungy bridge" and "highest commercial natural bungy jump", both narrower than the tourist sentence. The bridge class is lost too, because Balinghe is a bridge. The "natural" class has no register, so that half is unconfirmed, not true. SOURCES READ: guinnessworldrecords.com record page (29 Oct 2026); en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloukrans_Bridge (summary); the operator's listing copy via Nelson Mandela Bay tourism. COULD NOT CONFIRM: whether any higher commercial jump exists on a natural site. WRITE INSTEAD: "one of the highest commercial bungee jumps in the world, 216 m above the Bloukrans River." That is what you are buying: one claim, the record, and the sentence to use instead. Send the claim, where you saw it (a link if you have one), and your deadline. If it sounds like "is this true", "verify a claim before I send it", "check a claim before you publish", or "who held this record first", that is exactly this. Pay by card at order agreement. One revision included.

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