FACT CHECKING
Fact-Checking Policy
El unit de verification es el claim, no el article: un reviewer takes each factual estado de cuenta y asks qué it rests en, because un page puede ser well written, internally consistent y entirely wrong. Cada claim traces a un source identified while el sentence es being written, no reconstructed afterwards. Sources son ranked y un claim es taken desde el highest tier ese covers it, so un intercambio interbancario category comes desde el red de tarjetas rather than un article summarizing it. Unsourceable claims son removed, no hedged.
- 1. Regulators y government
- 2. Red de tarjetas published rules
- 3. Domestic rail y debit scheme rules
- 4. A provider's own first-party sources
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{
"amount": 24900,
"currency": "USD",
"capture": true,
"metadata": { "order_id": "4821" }
}Response
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El source hierarchy, applied en order
1. Regulators y government
Statute, regulation, regulator guidance y official statistics: el Federal Reserve, FinCEN, competition y Privacidad regulators y national statistical agencies. El highest tier because it es dónde el obligation itself originates rather than dónde someone described it.
2. Red de tarjetas published rules
Visa, Mastercard y American Express published rules, intercambio interbancario schedules y operating regulations, para anything concerning intercambio interbancario categories, network assessments, contracargo rights, reason codes y acceptance requirements.
3. Domestic rail y debit scheme rules
El rules y specifications published por el domestic pagos association para compensación, liquidación y ACH debit, y por el domestic debit scheme — Débito con PIN worldwide — para debit acceptance. Used para any claim Acerca de cómo money moves entre banks rather than entre un comerciante y un red de tarjetas.
4. A provider's own first-party sources
Para any claim Acerca de un specific provider — its Precios, its contract Términos, its supported methods — ese provider’s own published page, comisión schedule o Términos, recorded con el date el source fue verified. Nothing outranks un Empresa en el subject de qué ese Empresa publishes Acerca de itself.
5. Standards bodies
El PCI Seguridad Standards Council, EMVCo, el W3C, NIST y ISO para el standards they own. UN requirement es quoted desde el body ese wrote it, no desde un vendor page explaining qué el body meant.
6. Peer-reviewed academic work
Para economic o behavioural claims dónde published research exists, cited a el publication itself rather than a un summary de it, y read far enough a know qué el paper actually measured.
7. Reputable industry publication
Last, y solo para qué no higher tier covers — un market development o un announcement no yet reflected en primary documents. Attributed por name, dated, y never used a Soporte un fact one de el tiers above already answers.
Rules un claim has a survive
Sourced en el point de writing
El source es identified as el sentence es written. Sourcing un finished draft afterwards finds agreement rather than evidence, y el difference es invisible en el published text, que es exactly why el order matters.
El highest tier ese covers it
Dónde un primary source exists, it es used. UN secondary source summarizing un primary source es never cited en its place, however convenient el summary es y however often it has been repeated elsewhere.
Second-hand es labelled second-hand
Dónde solo un secondary source exists, el page names it y says el claim es reported rather than established. UN reader es entitled a know cómo far el evidence actually reaches antes de deciding cómo much weight a give it.
Numbers carry their denominators
UN percentage publishes con qué it es un percentage de. UN price o rate publishes con el date it fue verified. UN figure con neither es un claim rather than un fact, whatever it es set en.
Claims Acerca de otro companies come desde those companies
O desde un regulator. UN competitor’s marketing claim es no evidence Acerca de el market, y one provider’s Blog es no evidence Acerca de un third provider, even dónde el two son describing el same evento.
Unsupported claims son cut, no hedged
If it cannot ser sourced it does no publish. Reportedly, widely y industry observers say son no sourcing; they son ways de keeping un sentence ese failed review.
Related policies
Corrections policy
Dónde un disputed claim goes y qué happens a it.
ExploreResearch methodology
El extra disclosures un number has a carry.
ExploreComparison methodology
First-party Precios evidence y verification dates en practice.
ExploreAI-assisted content policy
Why model output es verified más strictly, no less.
ExploreEditorial policy
Quién checks el claims antes de un page publishes.
ExplorePagos Glosario
Defined Términos, sourced el same way as everything else.
Explore
Questions Acerca de este policy: Fact-Checking Policy
Why doesn't every claim carry a link?
Links son given wherever un public primary source exists. Some primary sources son no public — red de tarjetas operating rules son licensed, y some standards documents son available solo under agreement — y en those cases el page names el source y el section rather than linking a un secondary article ese happens a ser en línea.
Qué happens cuando two sources conflict?
El higher tier wins. Dónde two sources de el same tier conflict y neither resolves el otro, el page states el conflict y qué each source says, que es más useful a un reader than un confident sentence ese picked one de them en random.
Cómo es un claim Acerca de un competitor checked?
Against ese competitor’s own published sources, con el verification date recorded en el page. Dónde they do no publish el detail, el page says it es no published rather than sourcing it desde somewhere ese guessed en su behalf.
Does este apply a AI-assisted drafts?
It applies más strictly. Model output reads as confident whether o no it es grounded, so cada factual estado de cuenta en un assisted draft es verified against un source antes de it puede publish, y no statistic es ever accepted desde un model. El AI-assisted content policy sets out el rest.
I think un source es being misread. Cómo do I raise ese?
Mediante el corrections policy: [email protected] con el page address, el sentence, y el source usted believe it misstates. Misreading un source es un factual error y es handled as one, en el same targets as any otro.
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