VoxCheck is a distinct team within a legally registered non-profit organization VoxUkraine. It is stated on the website in the F.A.Q. section: https://voxukraine.org/en/voxcheck-f-a-q-2/. The information is available in English, Ukrainian, and Russian.

VoxCheck is part of VoxUkraine, designed specifically for Fact-checking purposes. The statute of VoxUkraine clearly states fact-checking and distribution of this information as specific activity of the organisation. 

1. VoxCheck's fact-checking operation started in 2016. The reason was a large number of lies and populism from politicians, low level of critical thinking of the population, and the absence of fact-checking projects in Ukraine.

2. There are twelve core members of the VoxCheck team. One can find them and their positions here https://voxukraine.org/en/voxcheck-f-a-q-2/#checkers. 

3. The organization's primary activities are fact-checking, debunking fakes, and educational activities on media and economic literacy.

4. The main objectives for the coming year are:

a) reduce the number of lies of politicians through new tools for spreading the fact check and the "punishment" tool for lying;

b) structure our training programs with a focus on training for civil servants;

с) change of project's positioning and rebranding.

The dozen of staff-members are constantly working on the factchecking publishing the results of analysis of wide range of topics. They seem to have clear goals and plans of activities for the next coming year.

Over a year since our last application was approved (August 18, 2019 - August 18, 2020), we have published 421 materials on the website. Most of them include either fact-checks of political statements or debunking of fakes. For the indicated period, it is approximately eight publications per week. One can find these publications here https://voxukraine.org/uk/category/proekti/voxcheck-uk/. 

Also, all fact-checks of political statements are made publicly available through our user-friendly database https://nepravda.org.

VoxCheck is publishing fact-check reports on regular basis doing it and publishing several times a day. All reports are stored in convenient for tracking way including user friendly search string. The database of all reports with filtering, ranging and sorting options on nepravda.org is very convenient to assess politicians integrity and compare them. 

I looked through 305 stories back to beginning of July 2020 https://voxukraine.org/uk/category/proekti/voxcheck-uk/page/39/  and find them well done in compliance to factcheck methodology. A lot of these publications were the checks of the facts under the collaboration of VoxCheck and Facebook. The topics of factchecking are socially important and cover a lot of issues providing reliable information to the audience.

VoxCheck is a part of VoxUkraine - a non-profit organization that aims at diversifying its funding. We have no commercial, financial and/or institutional relationship with the state, politicians, or political parties in the country or countries we cover. 

According to the Policies and Procedures Manual, our funding from a single entity or the size of a single grant should not be greater than 33% of the organization’s annual budget. Funding from a single private individual should not be greater than 10% of the organization’s annual budget.

VoxUkraine raises project-aimed and institutional funds from donor organizations if funding conditions and potential projects help to implement our mission. If a donor (private individual or entity) who financially supported VoxUkraine did not state the anonymity preference, his\her name (or name of the entity) would be stated in VoxUkraine’s annual financial report. If a donor expressed the anonymity preference or did not want to reveal the amount of money donated, VoxUkraine would not disclose such information. 

One can find our annual reports (available in Ukrainian) here: https://voxukraine.org/uk/reports/. The report for 2019 is here: https://voxukraine.org/report2019/index.html

From 2020, as 3PF program partners, we receive financing from Facebook.

VoxCheck looks like fully independent of any state and political influence and control. 

I didn't find online any claims blaming them in being connected to any state body or political party. The project is supported by a range of international donors and and these sources look well diversified.

1. According to the Policy and Procedure Manual of VoxUkraine, donors and editorial policy is the following. No donor shall intervene in the VoxUkraine editorial policy or influence VoxUkraine content in any way. If a donor tries to influence VoxUkraine content or its other activities, members of the Editorial Board must be notified. If the majority of the Editorial Board think that a donor has an undue influence on the editorial process, any member of the Editorial Board, or management of VoxUkraine, they shall consult Ethical Committee, who would decide on this matter.

2. VoxCheck is a signatory of the International Fact-Checking Network Code of Principles. It means that we are independent of any external interference. It is also stated in the section "VoxCheck Independence" - https://voxukraine.org/en/voxcheck-f-a-q-2/

The site has the statement at the bottom of each publication stating "The authors are not employees, do not advise, do not own shares and do not receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and are not affiliated in any way with them." (see attached screenshot)

The statement stressing editorial independence if also on the page https://voxukraine.org/en/voxcheck-f-a-q-2/ 

1. https://voxukraine.org/uk/yihnij-pershij-raz-voxcheck-debyutnogo-zasidannya-verhovnoyi-radi-9-sklikannya/

2. https://voxukraine.org/uk/i-ll-be-back-svoboda-slova-savika-shustera-povernulasya/

3. https://voxukraine.org/uk/rejting-manipulyatoriv-ta-brehuniv-perezavantazhennya/

4. https://voxukraine.org/uk/chervoni-liniyi-poroshenka-voxcheck-pereviriv-chergovij-marafon/

5. https://voxukraine.org/uk/thne-medvedchukom-kremlivskoyu-propagandoyu-ta-radyanskim-soyuzom/

6. https://voxukraine.org/uk/ilon-mask-ulyana-suprun-aparati-ventilyatsiyi-legeniv-i-nevidomij-hlopets/

7. https://voxukraine.org/uk/ne-vigidna-medreforma-perevirka-tsinoyu-v-zhittya/ 

8. https://voxukraine.org/uk/richnitsya-prezidentstva-zelenskogo-otsinka-voxcheck/

9. https://voxukraine.org/uk/nespravzhnya-medreforma-chastina-2-v-unison/

10. https://voxukraine.org/uk/vijna-zseredini-natsionalnij-bank-vs-golova-radi-nbu/ 

All fact-checks are double-checked by the VoxCheck team and go through the peer-review procedure, which means that at least two editors from the VoxUkraine Editorial Board read our fact-checks and give comments (also noted in the Policies and Procedures Manual). No article, except those on debunking fakes, can be published until signed off by two editors. The pieces on debunking fakes are signed off and approved for publication by two members of the VoxCheck team, who have not been involved in the writing process.

We regularly check and publish statements of all major politicians on various topics. For our fact-checks, we take only those statements that contain facts or figures. We check political statements in our publications and on-air during the political talk show "Countdown" at TV channel UA: Pershyi (public broadcasting network).

While fact-checking or debunking fakes, we use information from official and reliable sources that one can find on the web. These sources may include information from

- the governmental institutions (e.g., CDC, Eurostat, State Statistics Service of Ukraine, etc.),

- generally recognized international organizations (e.g., the UN, the IMF, the World Bank, etc.),

- reputable think tanks and pooling organizations (e.g., Razumkov Centre, Pew Research Center, etc.),

- official information from companies, associations, foundations (e.g., Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation),

- media with high factual reporting standards, including IFCN signatories (e.g., AFP, Bellingcat, Reuters, etc.), and

- peer-reviewed academic articles.

We do not fact-check if we cannot find publicly available proof. If the information needed for the fact-check may be requested from the authorities, we can do so provided that we make this information publicly available. In this way, we ensure that the readers can click-and-check each fact-check.

All the links to the sources are embedded in the fact-checks. One can see that on our website or online platform nepravda.org

Provided examples and further analysis of the stories shows that VoxCheck is following the standards of non-partisanship and fairness, select the topics and claims in unbiased way. I would add that the thorough analysis of the facts is provided to all topics and statements in accordance to the same standards and rules.

One can find a section on How VoxCheck selects claims to check here (available in English, Ukrainian, Russian): https://voxukraine.org/en/voxcheck-f-a-q-2/. 

Methodology, which includes more details on the selection of claims, one can find here (available in Ukrainian): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DjfsPY2TsRBwnHAu9emjKFy45KaP196W3xJPtaGO54Q/edit.

VoxCheck selects variety of the topics and is not concentrated on one side& There is a link to the methodology of the VoxCheck used by the team at https://voxukraine.org/en/voxcheck-f-a-q-2/ . It provides clear explanation of the procedures and methods used.

Producing their stories VoxCheck team in appropriate cases discloses sources status in the story. This helps the reader to understand if there is specific interest of the source and gives deeper understanding of the topic context. 

VoxCheck in the publications and analysis shows neutrality and equal approach toward all parties and politicians providing no support to anybody and treating everybody equally. 

Our commitment to Nonpartisanship and Fairness, as well as a statement that any member of VoxCheck does not belong to any political party and does not support any politician or authority, is stated here (available in English, Ukrainian, Russian): https://voxukraine.org/en/voxcheck-f-a-q-2/.

VoxUkraine (which is an organization for the VoxCheck project) is a non-partisan NGO. This principle is noted in the Policies and Procedures Manual of the organization. VoxUkraine also demands all editors, board members, and employees to disclose any potential conflict of interest (Policies and Procedures Manual). Thus, each article, including fact-checks published on the VoxUkraine website, contains a disclaimer on potential conflict of interest or its absence.

Also, none of the VoxUkraine governing bodies (General Meeting and Supervisory Board) are members of any political party.

Regarding hiring the people, who are members of political parties, we never had such a case since all our employees are not engaged in politics.

It is also written in our ethical principles here: https://voxukraine.org/en/voxcheck-f-a-q-2/.

The methodology document on the site https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DjfsPY2TsRBwnHAu9emjKFy45KaP196W3xJPtaGO54Q/edit  and here https://voxukraine.org/en/voxcheck-f-a-q-2/ explain the key criteria of non-partisanship.

Almost all stories that I looked through are based on the open document sources with appropriate links. The factcheck summaries are structured as step-by-step guidance that gives the readers the opportunity to replicate the factcheck on their own.

Primary sources, mostly official public data or documents are used to prove the facts in the publications of VoxCheck.

In case the facts and statements that are checked can be proven by several different sources, VoxCheck is providing confirmation from more than one source as proofs.

Since the most of proofs are based on the official and public data with the appropriate links it's clear that official data could have disinformation as well. Yet in some cases VoxCheck is noticing the status/affiliation or specific interest of the source/expert for the transparency and understanding of the context.

The document verifying the non-profit status of VoxUkraine is attached (available in Ukrainian).

There are eligible proofs of the Non-profit independent status of the VoxUkraIne. At the page there https://voxukraine.org/uk/reports/ there are annual reports shoving the structure of funding of VoxUkraine.

VoxUkraine, and consequently VoxCheck, is a non-profit organization, which is indicated here (available in English, Ukrainian, Russian): https://voxukraine.org/en/about-us-eng/.

On the VoxCheck section and on the main VoxUkraine page there are notifications that VoxUkraine is implementing VoxCheck project as well as information about sources of funding.

One can find the required information here (available in English, Ukrainian, Russian): https://voxukraine.org/en/voxcheck-f-a-q-2/.

The management system and organisational structure is clearly described here  https://voxukraine.org/en/voxcheck-f-a-q-2/ . 

One can see the VoxCheck team here (available in English, Ukrainian, Russian): https://voxukraine.org/en/voxcheck-f-a-q-2/.

The examples of professional biographies are here (available in English, Ukrainian, Russian):

- Maksym Skubenko https://voxukraine.org/en/item/maksym-skubenko/, 

- Svitlana Slipchenko https://voxukraine.org/en/item/svitlana-slipchenko-2/,

- Anastasiia Ivantsova https://voxukraine.org/en/item/anastasiia-ivantsova/,

- Yuliia Zhaha https://voxukraine.org/en/item/yuliia-zhaha/,

- Vitaliy Protsenko https://voxukraine.org/en/item/vitaliy-protsenko/,

- Valeriia Stepaniuk https://voxukraine.org/en/item/valeria-stepaniuk/.

Information about the Editorial team is located on https://voxukraine.org/en/voxcheck-f-a-q-2/ This section provides relevant information about each team member including short bio and position in the newsroom. 

Our email is indicated in the F.A.Q. here https://voxukraine.org/en/voxcheck-f-a-q-2/. We are also open to communication in our social media. One can reach us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/VoxCheck/) or Telegram through feedback bot (@voxcheck_feedbackbot). Our core team members have affiliation with VoxCheck on their Facebook pages, so people also can write there. 

VoxCheck gives the readers variety of convenient options to communicate with editorial team through the web-site, special form, social networks and email. 

One can find our methodology here (available in Ukrainian): https://voxukraine.org/uk/voxcheck-f-a-q/#quotes

One can find our Manual for Interns here (available in Ukrainian): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d7b0TmYBOlmE1Wr4M7yaocQWJU4_RUC8oh540_WdJDg/edit

One can find the up-to-date spreadsheet of the checked political statement here https://nepravda.org/. It is under the label "Завантажити базу" in the upper left corner.

The link to the page with the methodology is at the bottom of the front-page of the site https://voxukraine.org/en/voxcheck-f-a-q-2/ .

Most of claims analysed by me were about local elections in Ukraine that will be at the end of October 2020 and COVID-19, the importance is evident, the rest were connected to finances, economy, social issues, international relations and were socially important.

In case of controversial claims that are checked, VoxCheck tries to provide wide range of evidences that can both support and undermine the claim.

It seems very clear that VoxCheck has equal, unbiased and neutral approach to the sources of claims as well as to the sources proving claims.

In some stories I saw the links to original links of disinforming claims and in some cases there were published statements of the politicians who were quoted incorrectly and became victims of disinformation in the claims that were checked. 

We have a pop-up window on our website (https://voxukraine.org/uk/voxcheck/). So, everyone can suggest a claim by a politician or publication in the media to be fact-checked. We also receive suggestions through our email voxcheck@gmail.com. We are also open to communication in our social media. One can reach us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/VoxCheck/) or Telegram through feedback bot (@voxcheck_feedbackbot). Also, we have a Google-form, which we promote on Facebook: https://forms.gle/eH3xaWvMyZmPEjgf8.

There are several ways to submit the claim for checking including email, Google Form https://forms.gle/eH3xaWvMyZmPEjgf8 and via social networks. There is an explanation of the claims appropriate for factchecking on the https://voxukraine.org/en/voxcheck-f-a-q-2/ .

Please find the section for Error recognition policy here https://voxukraine.org/en/voxcheck-f-a-q-2/#mistakes.

VoxCheck has clear Error recognition policy here https://voxukraine.org/en/voxcheck-f-a-q-2/#mistakes .

The policy sets clearly how mistakes can be found, what and in which way they will be corrected. 

"VoxCheck staff are humans, not robots, and everyone can make a mistake. Our work is organized in a way enabling us to filter out possible errors (see “How VoxCheck checks politicians”), however, sometimes they still get published. We are grateful to the attentive readers and respect the facts. If you believe that VoxCheck has checked the quote of a politician inaccurately, please email us at voxcheck@gmail.com. Incorrect fact-checks will be reviewed again and updated on the voxukraine.org website with the corresponding mark."

In this article (available in Ukrainian, English, Russian) https://voxukraine.org/en/smells-like-medvedchuk-kremlin-propaganda-and-soviet-union/ , we did not correctly apply the legal provisions regarding the political advertisement. After the publication of the article, one of the analysts of the Ukrainian NGO "Centre for Democracy and Rule of Law" noticed our mistake and let us know. So, we corrected the mistake by crossing out the wrong text and adding the disclaimer explaining that mistake. We also let our readers on Facebook know about the corrections in the article by updating to the post (https://www.facebook.com/VoxCheck/posts/1168995946765242 - available in Ukrainian).

In this article (available in Ukrainian, English, Russian) https://voxukraine.org/uk/oskaru-ne-bude-analiz-filmu-rik-prezidenta-zelenskogo/, we used the wrong set of data for counting the adopted bills. One of the readers let us know about that. So, we corrected the mistake by crossing out the wrong text, adding the calculations based on the correct information, and adding the disclaimer that the original text has been edited. We also let our readers on Facebook know about the corrections in the article by writing a separate post (https://www.facebook.com/VoxCheck/posts/1195064870825016 - available in Ukrainian).

The examples of the correction of mistakes provided by VoxCheck showed dedicated and responsible approach to the correction of mistakes and fair treating of the readers.

We indicate it here (available in English, Ukrainian, and Russian): https://voxukraine.org/en/voxcheck-f-a-q-2/.

The IFCN logo and disclaimer are properly located at the beginning of the FAQ page. (See the screenshot)

VoxCheck is not a part of the media.

Since VoxUkraine is analytical platform and not the media, this criteria is not applicable.