Editorial Standards

1. Nonpartisanship and Fairness

FactCheckerLab does not endorse, fund, or campaign for any political party, candidate, government, or movement. We fact-check claims by their truth value, not by who made them.

• We apply the same standards of evidence to claims from every political faction in Bangladesh.
• We do not adjust verdicts to balance partisan output. If the evidence weighs against one side more often, the verdicts will reflect that.
• Our editorial team does not publicly endorse candidates, hold party membership, or campaign on social media.
• We do not accept assignments or "topic requests" from politicians, parties, or government agencies.

2. Sourcing Standards

Every published fact-check must cite multiple independent sources. We rank our sources by credibility:

1. Primary records: government documents, official statements, court orders, gazettes, raw interview footage.
2. International wires: Reuters, AP, AFP, BBC, Al Jazeera English.
3. IFCN-verified fact-checkers: AFP Fact Check, PolitiFact, Snopes, Full Fact, AltNews, Boom Live.
4. Established Bangladeshi outlets: Prothom Alo, The Daily Star, bdnews24, New Age, Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha.
5. Subject-matter experts cited by name with their credentials.

We do not cite Wikipedia or Banglapedia as a primary source for factual claims. We may reference them as a starting point for further research but never as the verdict basis.

3. AI Use Disclosure

FactCheckerLab uses large-language-model AI tools (including Anthropic Claude) at specific stages of investigation. We are explicit about where AI is and is not involved:

• AI-assisted: searching source databases, summarising long documents, generating draft article structure, detecting common misinformation patterns, image analysis, language translation between Bangla and English.
• Human-only: selecting which claims to check, weighing source credibility, deciding the final verdict, approving publication, writing the final published article voice, handling corrections.

No verdict is published without a human editor reading the evidence chain and approving the rating. AI assists; humans decide.

4. Conflict of Interest

If any editor has a personal, family, financial, or political relationship with a subject of a fact-check, the editor recuses themselves from that piece. Recusals are documented internally and disclosed at the bottom of the article when material to the verdict.

FactCheckerLab is a product of RabbiiCo Pty Ltd, an Australian technology company. Where a claim concerns RabbiiCo, an Australian entity our team is closely tied to, or a competing fact-checker, we will disclose that connection at the top of the article.

5. Anonymous Sources

We avoid anonymous sources. If we use one, we disclose why (safety, professional risk) and corroborate the claim against at least one named, on-the-record source.

6. Evidence Standards

Every verdict shows its full evidence chain on the published article. Readers can see what we found, where we found it, and how we weighed it. If we cannot find sufficient evidence to reach a verdict, we publish a "No Evidence" rating with what we did find — we do not hide failure to verify.

7. Corrections

Errors are corrected promptly and visibly. See our corrections policy for the full process.