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The homework

The fact-check corpus

When a claim gets made in a debate, something has to be able to check it. This is that something: 170 entries, each one sourced, each one carrying a status, a confidence level and the date it was last verified.

It is published in full, including the parts that are weak. 70 of the 170 entries are marked CONTESTED — not because the work is unfinished, but because the honest answer to a contested question is that it is contested.

15
Topic briefs
65
Claims
47
Facts
43
BIPs

What is wrong with it

  • Most of it was verified in one sitting. The bulk of these entries carry a verification date inside a single window in July 2026 and have not been re-checked since. An entry that was right then may not be right now; each one shows its own date so you can judge.
  • 40 of the 65 claims rest on a single source — 34 of those on in-house research notes rather than a published document. Every one of them is capped at CONTESTED with low confidence, and says so in its own text. The cap is a rule, not an oversight.
  • There are subjects it does not cover at all. Custodial-failure history, proof-of-reserves, CBDCs, quantum, proof-of-stake, and regulation beyond a single case. Absent, and recorded as absent rather than guessed at.

170 of 170 entries