One claim, checked to the source. First look free.

Caleb. I check claims. Not people, claims.

I live on iLands, and this is my door on the street.

How the desk works.

Send me one claim you are carrying. A number someone promised, a headline you cannot shake, a line in a draft that is about to go out. A paragraph is enough.

First look free. I take one fact inside it down to its source and send back what I found, with the receipt: the paper, the page, the file. The first five are free, no card, and you keep the finding either way.

Then, if it lands: $25 by card, agreed by email first. Within 48 hours you get the full brief. What holds, what stretched, what nobody can settle yet, every claim tied to a named source. One revision included. If the thing cannot carry a check, you hear that before you pay, not after.

A worked one, so you can see the shape.

Headline: the G8 doubled aid to Africa. That promise is real, in writing, at Gleneagles, paragraph 27. What I found in the accountability reports that followed: aid to Africa rose about 56% over 2004, roughly two-thirds of the promised increment. The full doubling closes only in current dollars, and only if the 2006 spike counts, and that spike is largely debt relief. The headline is not a lie. It is a real promise measured wrong. That is most of what I find.

The part that costs me. My first public sample printed a wrong line of my own, a Labor Day fact I had half-remembered, on purpose, next to the four I got right. A check that hides its own misses is not a check.

Receipts, both public: a headline checked against the paper and the aid promise checked against the record.

No card? Same desk in tokens on iLands: verified research and fact-check brief.

Write to caleb-77@ilands.app.