Check Your Fact (CYF) is a dedicated fact-checking website owned and operated by the Daily Caller Inc., as explained prominently on the site's "About Us," "Privacy Policy" and "Terms of Service" pages. CYF's website is registered to the Daily Caller. In addition to its own privacy policy and terms of service, both of which identify it as a project of the Daily Caller, Check Your Fact has provided below a "Certificate of Status" for the DC's corporate registration in Delaware, first incorporated in 2009.

https://checkyourfact.com/about-us/

https://checkyourfact.com/privacy-policy/

https://checkyourfact.com/terms-of-service/

Check your fact does make it clear that they are owned by Daily Caller Inc. on their about us page.  At the same time, they have attached their legal registration.  

Check Your Fact launched in 2017. Our non-partisan mission is to independently fact check public figures on both sides of the political spectrum, as well as to vet the many widely-shared claims that rocket across the internet every day.

Eight people work for Check Your Fact: Jesse Stiller (Managing fact check editor), Max Kirsch (fact check editor), Joseph Casieri (fact check reporter), Elias Atienza (Senior reporter/Features Editor), Anthony Pascone (Data Entry Assistant), Anna Mock (fact check reporter), Christine Sellers (fact check reporter) and Morgan Johnson (data entry assistant). 

The fact check reporters identify, evaluate and write up fact-checkable claims, while the fact check editors edit and publish fact check articles, as well as assign stories. Our data entry assistant helps apply our rating to claims on Facebook and Instagram through our partnership with Meta.

Check Your Fact delivers informative fact check articles that provide readers with context and opposing points of view on topics that are newsworthy or of interest to its readers.

Our goals over the coming year include continuing to publish accurate, informative and well-rounded fact checks and growing our audiences on social media. We hope to boost the profile of our social media accounts to help increase the reach of our fact checks and highlight our work to more people

Check Your Fact's explanation/description of their 8-person team makes them compliant for this criteria.  Their stated goals are also acceptable.

Between Feb. 1, 2023 to  Aug. 31, 2023, Check Your Fact published 958 articles.

You can view all of our fact checks on our website: https://checkyourfact.com/

They are also housed on The Daily Caller website: http://dailycaller.com/

Upon inspection, the applicant published an average of at least one fact check a week over the course of the six months prior to the date of application.  In the past year, Check Your Fact published fact-checks on a very frequent basis.  

Based on a random sample and keeping in mind the American audience in mind that Check Your Fact primarily produces its fact-checks for: on average, at least 75% of Check Your Facts' fact checks focus on claims related to issues that, in the view of the IFCN, relate to or could have an impact on the welfare or well-being of individuals, the general public or society.

Check Your Fact has no commercial, financial and/or institutional relationship to any state, politicians or political parties in the country or countries we cover and has received no funding from foreign, local, state or political actors over the previous financial year.

Our parent company The Daily Caller, Inc. is in the business of selling advertising. As with all news companies, our parent company does sell advertising to commercial and political advertisers. This could also potentially include state entities such as government tourism bureaus. Advertising sold by the Daily Caller, Inc. is segregated from staff of Check Your Fact in the same manner that any major news outlet divides its revenue operations from its editorial operations. The Daily Caller, Inc does not use Check Your Fact's mailing lists/data/other materials in its sales efforts.

Upon inspecting the application and Check Your Fact's about us page: It is evident that the Check Your Fact editorial output is not controlled by the state, a political party or politician.  

https://checkyourfact.com/about-us/

Decisions about what we fact check and our conclusions for our fact checks are guided solely by Check Your Fact editors and journalists. Check Your Fact exercises editorial independence over the creation of fact check content. 

https://checkyourfact.com/fairness/

Under our Fairness tab, all Check Your Fact reporters are required to agree to the clause that they will not participate in any political activity or advocacy during their tenure.

Upon inspecting the application and Check Your Fact's about us page:

It is evident that Check Your Fact editorial output is not controlled by the state, a political party or politician. While they do receive advertising dollars from entities that have political ties, Check Your Fact does state that they separate their fact-checking editorial team.  

Once a claim is chosen, we ensure that every article is balanced. Check Your Fact has dedicated editors who scrutinize each article for fairness, ensuring that opposing viewpoints and all relevant context are represented.

We often reach out to experts to make sure our research is thorough and fair and relies on reputable source material. This includes reports from nonpartisan government agencies, academic sources and research published by prominent think tanks. Our research methods range from phone interviews to sifting through academic papers, news reports and books. We rely on primary documents wherever possible.

Source material is hyperlinked extensively within the body of the article, and wherea link is not available, the article tells readers where the information came from and the qualifications of the institution or individual who provided the content. Check Your Fact also uses graphs and charts to clearly illustrate the verdict as needed.

Once a writer completes a draft, he or she submits the article to the editors who check the content for accuracy, clarity and completeness. Updates are made as needed, followed by a final round of copy-editing prior to publication.

More information about our methodology can be found here:

https://checkyourfact.com/methodology/

1) FACT CHECK: Fox News Anchor Claims Joe Biden Hasn't Invited Benjamin Netanyahu To The White House

https://checkyourfact.com/2023/10/12/fact-check-fox-news-anchor-claims-joe-biden-hasnt-invite-benjamin-netanyahu-to-the-white-house/

2) FACT CHECK: Joe Biden Claims Fiscal Responsibility Act Saves $1 Trillion From The Deficit Over Next 10 Years

https://checkyourfact.com/2023/10/06/fact-check-biden-fiscal-responsibility-act-deficit/

3) FACT CHECK: 8 Claims From The 2nd Republican Primary Debate

https://checkyourfact.com/2023/09/28/fact-check-8-claims-from-the-2nd-republican-primary-debate/

4) FACT CHECK: Robert Menendez Claims Money Seized By Feds Were From Personal Savings Account

https://checkyourfact.com/2023/09/27/fact-check-menendez-money-personal-savings-account/

5) FACT CHECK: Did The United Nations Say That 2 Million People Die Per Year Due To Extreme Weather?

https://checkyourfact.com/2023/08/25/fact-check-united-nations-2-million-extreme-weather/

6) FACT CHECK: Did Joe Biden Eliminate $1.7 Trillion Of The Federal Debt?

https://checkyourfact.com/2023/08/23/fact-check-joe-biden-1-7-trillion-federal-debt/

7) FACT CHECK: Has Ukraine Taken Back 50% Of Territory It Lost Since February 2022?

https://checkyourfact.com/2023/07/28/fact-check-ukraine-territory-february-2022/

8) FACT CHECK: Joe Biden Claims U.S. Went From Producing 40% Of World's Microchips To 10%

https://checkyourfact.com/2023/07/10/fact-check-us-production-chips-fallen/

9) FACT CHECK: Joe Biden Makes Claims About Guns, NRA And Federal Deficit At Recent Campaign Event

https://checkyourfact.com/2023/06/27/fact-check-biden-claims-campaign-event/

10) FACT CHECK: Trump Claimed There Was 'Never' An Impeachment Inquiry When He Was President

https://checkyourfact.com/2023/08/31/fact-check-trump-impeachment-inquiry/

The above 10 fact checks demonstrate that we use same essential process for every fact check and let evidence dictate our conclusions. Our fact checks rely heavily on news releases, public statements, video coverage of events, transcripts, academic and/or industry reports, federal and state government agency data, consultation with relevant experts, and reputable media reports. We also review legislative and government documents, conduct reverse image searches, review archiving services and seek comment from relevant parties in all stories. What we learn from such methods determine our verdict.

Our rating system:

True – The primary aspects of the claim are true and can be backed up with evidence.

False – The primary aspects of the claim are false and lack supporting evidence.

Misleading - Some aspects of the claim are false, misleading or missing context.

Unsubstantiated - While the claim cannot be verified with evidence, there is no clear-cut examples to render a definitive verdict at this time. 

While it is not possible to review every single fact-check from Check Your Fact, based on the fact-checks provided to review, the applicant uses the same high standards of evidence and judgement for equivalent claims regardless of who made the claim.

Check Your Fact pursues a non-partisan mission of fact-checking public figures on both sides of the political spectrum and popular but suspect claims circulating on social media. To ensure this, our writers have built out social media feeds on Tweetdeck (Twitter) and Crowd Tangle (Facebook) that track the statements made by both conservatives and liberals.

Scanning sources across the political spectrum allows us to keep our claim selection neutral. We have one feed that tracks what Republican members of Congress are tweeting and another that follows the tweets of Democratic members; one that tracks conservative advocacy groups and another that follows liberal ones; etc. On Facebook, we have separate feeds for right-wing and left-wing pages.

We avoid fact-checking opinions or claims with ambiguous wording, and generally focus on claims that follow the news cycle, have been shared widely on social media, or have been made by prominent public figures. Check Your Fact strives to address claims that are extremely misleading or surprising, timely and may be of interest to readers.

Once a claim is chosen, we ensure that every article is balanced. Check Your Fact has dedicated editors who scrutinize each article for fairness, ensuring that opposing viewpoints and all relevant context are represented. We often reach out to experts to make sure our research is thorough and fair.

More information on our process can be found here:

http://checkyourfact.com/methodology

Check Your Fact does make strong efforts to maintain bipartisanism in their fact-checking process.  A website link stating how they select claims is provided.  They do not unduly concentrate their fact-checking on any one side.

Based on a random sample of fact-checks reviewed:

Check Your Fact discloses in its fact checks relevant interests of the sources it quotes where the reader might reasonably conclude those interests could influence the accuracy of the evidence provided.  Check Your Fact also discloses in its fact checks any commercial or other such relationships it has that a member of the public might reasonably conclude could influence the findings of the fact check.

As stated here, https://checkyourfact.com/about-us/m, Check Your Fact is not as an organization affiliated with nor declares or shows support for any party, any politician or political candidate, nor does it advocate for or against any policy positions on any issues save for transparency and accuracy in public debate.

Based on random sample of fact-checks reviewed, Check Your Fact does not affiliate with or declare or show support for any party, any politician or political candidate, nor does it advocate for or against any policy positions on any issues save for transparency and accuracy in public debate.

As a news outlet, we mandate that our employees do not advocate for individual politicians or candidates. Doing so would violate our journalistic code of ethics and make reporting the news in a non-biased way impossible.

More information on our nonpartisanship and fairness can be found here:

https://checkyourfact.com/about-us

https://checkyourfact.com/fairness

Our writer’s agreement specifically addresses this point:

"Political Activities -- Writer agrees not to partake in any partisan political activity or other issue advocacy during the term of this Agreement. Writer understands that any such political activity or advocacy could cause others to question their independence as a reporter."

Based on the applicant's response and links attached:

Check Your Fact sets out its policy on non-partisanship for staff on its site. 

The staff do not get involved in advocacy or publicize their views in such a way as might lead a reasonable member of the public to see the organization’s work as biased.

Based on a random sample, Check Your Fact does provide sources of all significant evidence used in their fact checks, providing relevant links where the source is available online, in such a way that users can replicate their work if they wish. 

In cases where identifying the source would compromise the source’s personal security, Check Your Fact provides as much detail as compatible with the source’s safety.

Based on a random sample, Check Your Fact uses the best available primary, not secondary, sources of evidence wherever suitable primary sources are available. Where suitable primary sources are not available, Check Your Fact explains the use of a secondary source.

Based on a random sample, Check Your Fact checks all key elements of claims against more than one named source of evidence save where the one source is the only source relevant on the topic.

Based on a random sample, Check Your Fact identifies in its fact checks the relevant interests of the sources it uses where the reader might reasonably conclude those interests could influence the accuracy of the evidence provided.

Check Your Fact is a for-profit subsidiary wholly owned by The Daily Caller, Inc. The majority owner of the Daily Caller, Inc. is co-founder and publisher Neil Patel. Its organizational status is explained prominently on the site's "About Us," "Privacy Policy" and "Terms of Service" pages. We have also provided the Daily Caller, Inc.'s certificate of status.

https://checkyourfact.com/about-us/

https://checkyourfact.com/privacy-policy/

https://checkyourfact.com/terms-of-service/

Check Your Fact is funded by The Daily Caller’s general news budget, as well as revenue generated through advertising. Check Your Fact is also partially funded by Meta, which contracts the outlet to do third-party fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram. Expenditures for Check Your Fact include employee salaries and website maintenance.

Check Your Fact, does provide their sources of funding publicly on their links as per their application.  As per 1.1, Check Your Fact also provides a certificate of status.  

https://checkyourfact.com/about-us

https://checkyourfact.com/privacy-policy/

https://checkyourfact.com/terms-of-service/

On Check Your Fact's About Us page, we state:

"Check Your Fact is a for-profit subsidiary wholly owned by The Daily Caller, Inc. The majority owner of The Daily Caller, Inc. is co-founder and publisher Neil Patel.

Check Your Fact is funded by The Daily Caller’s general news budget, as well as revenue generated through advertising. Check Your Fact is also partially funded by Meta, which contracts the outlet to do third-party fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram. Expenditures for Check Your Fact include employee salaries and website maintenance.

Check Your Fact makes it very clear in their application and website that they are a for-profit subsidiary of The Daily Caller.

https://checkyourfact.com/about-us/

https://checkyourfact.com/staff/

Decisions about what to investigate, as well as our conclusions, are guided by Check Your Fact's editors and journalists. Check Your Fact exercises editorial independence over the creation of fact check content.

All fact checks are vetted, approved and edited by dedicated Check Your Fact editors. No other outside sources write or publish articles on the site.

Check Your Fact's website links make clear the organizational structure and how and by whom editorial control is exercised.

https://checkyourfact.com/staff/

Geoff Ingersoll is the Daily Caller's editor-in-chief.

Check Your Fact employs three dedicated editors, Jesse Stiller (managing fact check editor) Melissa Hawk (fact check editor) and Max Asher Kirsch (fact check editor), as well as fact check reporters Elias Atienza (who also serves as an editor for feature posts), Joseph Casieri, Christine Sellers and Anna Mock.

Check Your Fact on their website details the professional biography of all those who play a significant part in its editorial output. 

http://checkyourfact.com/contact

We also encourage our readers to contact us on our methodology page, as well asat the bottom of each article.

http://checkyourfact.com/methodology

Check Your Fact provides easy means on their website for users to communicate with the editorial team.

http://checkyourfact.com/methodology

Check Your Fact publishes on its website a statement about the methodology it uses to select, research, write and publish its fact checks.

Check Your Fact selects fact-checks are based primarily on the reach and importance of the claims, and where possible explains the reason for choosing the claim to check. For example: often Check Your Fact will mention the virality, on social media, of the post they are fact-checking.

Based on a random sample, Check Your Fact, states in its fact checks relevant evidence that appears to support the claim as well as relevant evidence that appears to undermine it.

Based on a random sample, Check Your Fact was found using the same high standards applied to evidence on equivalent claims, regardless of who made the claim.

Based on a random sample, where possible Check Your Fact does indeed seek to contact those who made the claim and to seek supporting evidence.  

We encourage our readers to send us feedback, including recommendations on future fact-checks.

http://checkyourfact.com/contact

http://checkyourfact.com/methodology

You may contact one of our reporters, or send an email to the managing fact check editor, Jesse Stiller: jesse@checkyourfact.com.

What makes a good fact check? We avoid fact-checking opinions or claims that are overly broad. For example, “Assault rifles are used in most school shootings” can be readily fact-checked, whereas “Banning assault weapons would stop school shootings” is something we leave the public to debate.

We encourage our readers to send us feedback, including recommendations on future fact-checks. We have a link at the footer of the page titled "Suggest a factcheck" that allows readers to submit possible content through our email on the page. This can be found here:

https://checkyourfact.com/contact/

The aforenoted header on that tab says the following:

"CONTACT US:

Got a tip or a claim for you'd like us to check? Send it our way –contact@checkyourfact.com"

As part of our methodology, we clearly explain our methods, writing process and our rating system, as well as what we can and cannot fact-check. The full guidelines can be found here:

http://checkyourfact.com/methodology

We specifically state that, in order for a claim to be investigated, it must fit the following:

"a statement made in public, which can be attributed to a specific person (e.g. a politician or campaigner) or organization (e.g. a report, a social media post) or claims based on a research report); an assertion or allegation that can be validated or refuted (to a degree); based on past or present actions (i.e. not speculative about the future)."

You may contact one of our reporters, or send an email to the managing fact check editor, Jesse Stiller (jesse@checkyourfact.com)

To ensure added clarity for audiences, I would recommend Check Your Fact include this detail on their contact page as well (http://checkyourfact.com/contact):

"a statement made in public, which can be attributed to a specific person (e.g. a politician or campaigner) or organization (e.g. a report, a social media post) or claims based on a research report); an assertion or allegation that can be validated or refuted (to a degree); based on past or present actions (i.e. not speculative about the future)."

Overall, Check Your Fact does encourage users to send in claims to check, while making it clear what readers can legitimately expect will be fact-checked and what isn’t fact-checkable.

http://checkyourfact.com/corrections

While our job is to ascertain the truth, we will occasionally make mistakes. When we do, we commit to hastily correcting our errors so that our readers can get the real story. If you spot an error, please alert us via our tip line.

The prominence of our correction will be commensurate to the gravity of the factual error. Typos will be corrected without fanfare, minor corrections will be noted at the bottom of the article and major corrections will be noted at the top.

We also occasionally update articles to include additional information to provide more context to our reporting and to include comments from relevant parties who responded to requests for comment after the publication of our stories. Such additions will be noted at the bottom of the article.

Check Your Fact has a corrections or complaints policy that is easily visible and accessible on the organization’s website.

https://checkyourfact.com/section/corrections/

All corrected articles on our site appear in this link to alert readers and explain our amendments.

On their methodology page, Check Your Fact does make clear how it handles corrections.  In addition, in the fact-checks they have corrected, Check Your Fact does make clear what the corrections were.  

Between October 2022 and October 2023, Check Your Fact published two (2) corrections, which include the following:

1) FACT CHECK: MAGA INC. AD MISLEADS ON RON DESANTIS’S STANCE ON TAX CUTS AND BORDER WALL

https://checkyourfact.com/2023/05/25/fact-check-maga-inc-ad-misleads-on-ron-desantiss-stance-on-tax-cuts-and-border-wall/

"Correction 5/25/2023: The article has been corrected to note that the Securing America’s Future Act provided funding for a border wall and is different from the bill first referenced in this fact check. The rating remains unchanged."

2) FACT CHECK: IS RON DESANTIS THE ONLY VETERAN RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT?

https://checkyourfact.com/2023/07/25/fact-check-desantis-veteran-president/

"Correction 7/27/2023: Two candidates who have declared for the Republican presidential nomination, E.W Jackson and Corey Stapleton, served in the military. This necessitates a change in the verdict from “True” to “False.” We regret this error."

Based on their corrections page (https://checkyourfact.com/section/corrections/):

Check Your Fact, makes a correction openly and transparently, seeking as far as possible to ensure that users of the original see the correction and the corrected version.

https://checkyourfact.com/about-us/

"Check Your Fact is a verified signatory of the International Fact-Checking Network’s Code of Principles. If a reader believes Check Your Fact is violating the Code of Principles, they can inform the International Fact-Checking Network here."

Check Your Fact does indeed inform users that if they believe Check Your Fact is in violation of the IFCN Code, they may inform the IFCN, with a link to the IFCN site.  (https://checkyourfact.com/about-us/)

As previously mentioned in the application, Check Your Fact is a for-profit subsidiary wholly owned by the Daily Caller, Inc. Check Your Fact exercises editorial independence over the creation of fact check content.

https://checkyourfact.com/about-us/

https://checkyourfact.com/corrections/

The Daily Caller’s Correction policy falls under its “Journalistic and Ethics Standards” which includes an email for readers to reach out and request a correction.

https://dailycaller.com/journalistic-and-ethical-standards/

https://dailycaller.com/buzz/daily-caller-corrections/

The parent company for Check Your Fact called The Daily Caller, also adheres to an open and honest corrections policy.

As per this link (https://dailycaller.com/journalistic-and-ethical-standards/): 

"All complaints about a story’s accuracy or fairness must be taken seriously: We are committed to giving everybody a fair hearing if they believe a story is unfair or incorrect. Complaints about a story should be emailed to corrections@dailycaller.com. If a correction is warranted it will be published as soon as possible. Serious errors will be highlighted at the top of a story."