Mission
We believe that rigorous, reproducible research on information integrity requires stable, auditable infrastructure — not ad hoc data exports. The Fact Check Database exists to provide exactly that.
Misinformation research is hampered by fragile data access: APIs change, exports expire, and institutional pipelines are rarely documented well enough to reproduce. We aim to fix that for the fact-check domain specifically.
Our methodology, ingestion pipeline, and schema are fully documented. Researchers can verify exactly how records are collected, normalized, and stored.
Every record carries provenance metadata — source organization, raw claim URL, ingestion timestamp, and schema version. No silent mutations; corrections are tracked and published.
Access is controlled, logged, and revocable. Even though the underlying data is public, we apply the access disciplines of sensitive research infrastructure: least privilege, encryption at rest, and explicit data stewardship.
This platform does not rank, score, or editorialize. It collects and reproduces fact-check records as published by the source organizations. Any analytical judgments belong to downstream researchers, not this pipeline.