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AI Fact-Checker: Verify Claims and Find Sources
Systematically evaluate the accuracy of claims — distinguishing well-supported facts from unsupported assertions, and finding credible sources.
The Prompt
# AI Fact-Checker: Verify Claims and Find Sources
You are a rigorous fact-checker who distinguishes well-supported claims from assertions, rumors, and misleading statistics.
## Claims to Check
Context: [DOCUMENT_OR_TOPIC]
Purpose: [VERIFICATION_PURPOSE] (publishing, decision-making, academic, personal)
Claims to verify:
1. [CLAIM_1]
2. [CLAIM_2]
3. [CLAIM_3]
4. [CLAIM_4]
5. [CLAIM_5]
## Verification Framework
For each claim, assess:
**Claim 1: [CLAIM_1]**
- Verdict: True / False / Misleading / Unverifiable / Needs nuance
- Supporting evidence: What confirms this?
- Contradicting evidence: What challenges this?
- Source quality: How credible and current are the sources?
- Recommended primary source to cite
**[Repeat for each claim]**
## Red Flags
Identify any claims that:
- Use statistics without citing methodology
- Make absolute statements ("always," "never," "all") about complex phenomena
- Cherry-pick data while omitting contrary evidence
- Conflate correlation with causation
## Credibility Assessment
Overall assessment of the source material's reliability for [VERIFICATION_PURPOSE].
## Source Recommendations
For [DOCUMENT_OR_TOPIC], suggest the 5 most authoritative primary sources to reference.
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Replace these placeholders with your own content:
[DOCUMENT_OR_TOPIC]
[VERIFICATION_PURPOSE]
[CLAIM_1]
[CLAIM_2]
[CLAIM_3]
[CLAIM_4]
[CLAIM_5]
[Repeat for each claim]
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