How answers are made.
Every answer on this site is built from records a person has reviewed. Nothing reaches a reader straight from the open web, and nothing is presented as more certain than its source.
Where records come from
Reviewers add public sources: government gazettes and releases, INEC filings, campaign and party material, news reports, interviews and speeches. Each page is fetched and saved as it was, with its date and publisher, so every answer can link back to the original.
An AI model reads each source and proposes short records: a role held, a statement made, a promise, an event. Those proposals wait in a review queue. A reviewer approves, edits, merges or rejects each one. Only approved records are used to answer questions.
What the labels mean
Every record carries one label. It describes the evidence, not whether the claim is good or bad.
- Official record
- Stated in an official government or INEC record.
- Verified
- Confirmed by independent primary evidence, checked by a reviewer.
- Reported
- Reported by the media or in an interview; not independently verified.
- Campaign claim
- Said by the campaign or party; not independently verified.
- Disputed
- Sources disagree about this.
- Unverified
- No reliable confirmation yet.
What a campaign or party says about its own candidate is always labelled a campaign claim. It is never shown as verified, even when it is repeated by several outlets, unless independent primary evidence confirms it.
How an answer is written
When you ask a question, the site finds the approved records that match it and passes only those to an AI model, which writes a short answer. Each sentence must point to the records it relies on. Before you see it, the answer is checked: numbers and quotes must appear in the cited records, and any sentence without a valid citation is removed. If the check fails, you see the records as written instead of a summary.
If no approved record answers your question, the site says so rather than guessing.
When sources disagree
Reviewers link records that contradict each other. When an answer draws on both, it shows the two accounts side by side, each with its source, and leaves the judgement to you.
Keeping records current
Sources are checked again for changes. When a page changes, the new version is saved next to the old one and the affected records go back to a reviewer. Spotted something wrong? Send a correction.