# Fact-check a claim or article

Breaks content into checkable claims, rates each one, and flags spin and missing context.

- Topic: Research & Summaries
- Framework: RTF
- Level: Standard
- Tags: Writing, Code, Fill-in Template
- Source: https://www.thinkwithprompt.com/prompts/fact-check-a-claim-or-article

## Prompt

```text
Fact-check the content below.

**Content:**
[PASTE ARTICLE, POST, SCRIPT, OR CLAIM]

Steps:
1. List each specific, checkable claim (numbers, dates, quotes, causal claims).
2. For each claim give a verdict — **Accurate / Mostly accurate / Misleading / False / Unverifiable** — with the reasoning and the best source to check it. If you can browse, cite sources with dates; if you can't, say "needs verification" rather than guessing.
3. Flag framing issues: cherry-picked data, missing context, loaded language, correlation presented as causation, outdated information.
4. Note anything that is opinion rather than fact.

Return a table: | Claim | Verdict | Why | Source to check |
Then a short overall assessment of how reliable the content is.

Do not invent sources. When evidence is genuinely mixed, say so.
```

## What to fill in

- PASTE ARTICLE, POST, SCRIPT, OR CLAIM

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