Here is Agência Lupa's official tax certificate at the Brazilian Government (in Portuguese). The company exists since February 2016, has its own office in Rio de Janeiro and a team of 15 professionals. Here is the link to our CNPJ:

https://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/lupa/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Lupa-na-Receita-Federal-do-Brasil.pdf 

Agência Lupa has proved it is a legally registered organization. The organization was not registered exclusively for the purpose of fact-checking because there is not a specific code to the activity on Cadastro Nacional da Pessoa Jurídica from Receita Federal do Brasil, the government body that makes the companies legal registration. Lupa is registered as News Agency.

April 2019 - https://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/lupa/2019/04/

March 2019 - https://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/lupa/2019/03/

February 2019 - https://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/lupa/2019/02/

January 2019 - https://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/lupa/2019/01/

December 2018 - https://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/lupa/2018/12/

November 2018 - https://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/lupa/2018/11/

October 2018 - https://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/lupa/2018/10/

Agência Lupa publishes fact-checks daily and sometimes more than one a day. 

In 2018, Agência Lupa's team mainly fact-checked the leading events around the Brazilian election and the political scenario. We have covered all TV debates and many interviews with presidential candidates in real time. We have also debunked lots and lots of misinformation that was being spread on social media about them. In May, we joined the Third Party Fact-Checking Project, launched by Facebook to fight misinformation. Between August and November, we verified over 850 contents by following up to 64 politicians. We also worked closely with two universities and found a way to keep track of false news being shared on WhatsApp. Please see some links that can prove our hard work bellow. It is important to remember that, during 2018, in order to keep fairness and equality, we stuck to our 8-steps public methodology.

Presidential debate in real time:

https://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/lupa/2018/08/09/debate-band-tempo-real-2018/

Regional debates in real time:

Rio de Janeiro - https://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/lupa/2018/10/25/debate-witzel-paes-globo/

São Paulo - https://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/lupa/2018/10/25/debate-doria-franca-globo/

Debunking false news in real time:

https://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/lupa/2018/10/27/verificamos-segundo-turno-checagens-tempo-real/

Debunking false information on WhatsApp:

https://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/lupa/2018/10/17/whatsapp-lupa-usp-ufmg-imagens/

Jair Bolsonaro’s outrage:

https://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/lupa/2018/09/06/atentado-bolsonaro-tempo-real/

Jair Bolsonaro and Fernando Haddad overall performance during the entire election:

https://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/lupa/2018/10/28/tudo-sobre-bolsonaro/

https://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/lupa/2018/10/27/tudo-sobre-haddad/

All 14 presidential candidate’s promises:

https://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/lupa/2018/09/03/museu-nacional-ufrj-programas-tse/

Elected president Jair Bolsonaro:

https://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/lupa/2018/10/31/bolsonaro-primeiras-entrevistas/

https://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/lupa/2019/03/30/bolsonaro-live-ministros/

Agência Lupa's verifications cover an extraordinarily wide scope, from social media content shared by anonymous or unknown users to statements of politicians and famous figures. Reports are published considering all the sides and it does not concentrate on the same topics or characters. With the end of presidential elections, Lupa has published more verifications about the new president, but it can be considered very normal because of his relevance.

Agência Lupa is very aware of the importance of being impartial and nonpartisan. That is why it asks its fact-checkers and employers to sign a document, agreeing with IFCN's Code of Principles. In this document, they also commit to keep themselves from getting involved with political parties and advocacy organizations while working for the company. All members of Lupa also receive an alert regarding what the direction thinks is a good public position in social media. The document is signed by employers once every year and a copy is sent to IFCN by email.

There are no evidence on the content publishes on its website that Agência Lupa has endorsed any time a candidate, political parties or advocacy organizations.

The document attached in this assessment is proof that Lupa preventing staff from direct involvement in political parties and advocacy organizations. But that information is not published on the Lupa's website and I recommend that it be done.

All sources of information are revealed on our articles - except when a life is at risk. We always use hyperlinks on our texts so our readers can fact-check us anytime they want. Most of our work is based on public data. When we debunk content that is being shared on social media, we make sure to show the false information was actually running on those platforms and the amount of shares it had when we started working on it. This printscreen, however, never exposes a user by it's name or picture.

There are abundant links to the original sources on the Lupa's reports and that allows the users to repeat the way of investigation and to draw their own conclusions. The links are highlighted and the text describes what is in each link most of the times. This policy is described in the section "Como a Lupa faz suas checagens?" - https://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/lupa/2015/10/15/como-fazemos-nossas-checagens/                                                                                                     

None (International)

http://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/lupa/2015/10/15/como-funciona-nosso-modelo-de-negocios/

Agência Lupa describes clearly its sources of funding and offers some figures as the organization's annual budget on the page "Como funciona o modelo de negócios da Lupa?". There is no specific information about spending or figures to each one on the main funding sources. 

- https://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/lupa/2015/10/15/como-funciona-nosso-modelo-de-negocios/

http://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/lupa/quem-somos/

12 authors and key actors behind the fact-checking project are clearly listed on the website, with an illustration instead of a photo, and their bios and roles.

1. For email contact:

There is an orange banner on our homepage: "Fale com a redação no lupa@lupa.news

On our "Quem somos" section: http://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/lupa/quem-somos/

2. For social media contact:

All social media is on our homepage header: www.lupa.news

3. For address:

At the bottom of our "Quem somos" section: http://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/lupa/quem-somos/

4. Other contacts:

At the bottom of every article, we ask two questions:

a) Was this article useful? (Esse conteúdo foi útil?, in Portuguese)

Answers are grades from 1 to 5

b) Do you agree with the conclusions obtained in this article? (Você concorda com o resultado desta checagem?, in Portuguese)

Answers are yes or no

There are several points of contact for interaction between readers and the staff of Agência Lupa. Users are invited to suggest checks on the homepage and report pages and they can also evaluate the fact-checks made by the Lupa team. Readers are stimulated to use Messenger and email to communicate with the Lupa as well.

http://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/lupa/2015/10/15/como-fazemos-nossas-checagens/

The Lupa's website provides a step-by-step explanation of its methodology, explains what is on focus on the verification and what is not, and describe clearly what represents each label used by the team to reinforce the verification result.

http://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/lupa/2015/10/15/como-posso-contribuir/

Readers can send claims to fact-check to the Agência Lupa's staff. There is a section that explains what is checkable, it provides links to the methodology page and to a form to the users send their suggestions. 

http://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/lupa/2015/10/15/na-lupa-ha-espaco-para-contestacoes-e-correcoes/

https://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/lupa/2018/09/20/debate-tv-aparecida/

https://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/lupa/2018/08/04/bolsonaro-sabatina-globonews/

Lupa describes clearly its correction policy but it has not a public page listing all corrections made. The examples provided are in line with Lupa's correction policy.