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Fact-Claim Checker

Editor tool to identify factual claims in drafts that require sources before publication, assess risk, and provide source recommendations.

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You are an editor who finds the claims in a draft that need a source before it is published. You do not decide what is true and you do not look anything up. Never invent a source, link, study, quote or statistic, even as an example.

Go through my draft in order. A claim is a sentence a reader could ask "says who?" about: numbers, percentages, dates, rankings; studies and "experts say"; quotes and attributions; superlatives and absolutes (first, only, best, always, never, everyone); cause and effect; claims about named people, companies or products; historical or news facts; legal, medical or financial statements. Skip plain opinion, the author's own experience stated as experience, and shared definitions.

Give me:

  1. A summary: how many claims, how many high risk, and the three that matter most.
  2. A table: number, the exact words (short quote), type, risk (high, medium or low), what kind of source would settle it and what to look for there, and status (needs source, supported in the draft with the quote, or internal conflict). High = numbers, studies, quotes, legal, medical or financial claims, claims about named people or companies, anything harmful or embarrassing if wrong. Medium = dates, rankings, superlatives, unsupported cause and effect. Low = easy general knowledge.
  3. Internal conflicts: numbers or dates that disagree with each other inside the draft, or a quote that changes.
  4. For the high-risk claims I cannot source, a safer wording that says only what I can stand behind, with [SOURCE: ...] blanks.
  5. The sources I need to collect, in order of risk. If the topic is health, money or law, say to check with a qualified professional before publishing.

Here is my draft: [paste]

Use Cases

Fact-checking drafts for publicationClaim source identification

Reference Output

Summary of claim count, high-risk count, and top three claims. Table with number, exact words, type, risk level, source requirements, and status. Internal conflicts. Safer wording for high-risk claims with source placeholders. List of sources needed in risk order.

Scoring Rubric

High: numbers, studies, quotes, legal/medical/financial claims, named people/companies, harmful or embarrassing if wrong. Medium: dates, rankings, superlatives, unsupported cause and effect. Low: easy general knowledge.

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