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

https://voxukraine.org/uk/voxcheck/

Also, all fact checks made by the VoxCheck in the last year are collected at the new online platform: https://nepravda.org

VoxCheck is publishing fact-check reports on regular basis doing it 1-3 times per week. 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 each other. 

1. All fact-checks are double-checked by our volunteers and VoxCheck team and go through the peer-review procedure, which means that at least 2 editors from the VoxUkraine Editorial Board read our fact-checks and give comments (also noted in the Policies and Procedures Manual). None article can be published until it is signed off by two editors.

2. We check all major politicians on a regular basis and publish checks on them. During the presidential election, we checked all main candidates. Moreover, we checked them not only in our articles but also on air (UA: Suspilne show). In 2018 we were making weekly digests (we monitored all the speeches given by the politicians from the list (who are from all political parties represented in parliament) and take only those quotes that contain facts and figures.

VoxCheck does reports on variety topics and politicians selecting them on their appearance eon the news as well as in case some VoxCheck readers are submitting quote and requesting for the fact-check. I don't see any preferences in topics selection and coverage. I looked through 10 consecutive fact-check reports (see the links below) and found them done in appropriate manner and covering socially important issues.

https://voxukraine.org/uk/do-kogo-pretenziya-faktchek-superechki-prem-yeriv-na-svobodi-slova/

https://voxukraine.org/uk/lideri-manipulyatsij-pro-shho-breshut-golovi-partij-za-misyats-do-viboriv/

https://voxukraine.org/uk/velika-minimalka-veliki-borgi-faktchek-video/

https://voxukraine.org/uk/vakarchuk-kazhe-pravdu-faktchek-video/

https://voxukraine.org/uk/pro-shho-zbrehav-ta-chim-manipulyuvav-nestor-shufrich/

https://voxukraine.org/uk/pershi-rishennya-zelenskogo-i-vibori-pro-shho-zbrehali-politiki-v-efiri-pravo-na-vladu/

https://voxukraine.org/uk/ti-ruki-nichogo-ne-krali-shho-kolishnya-uchasnitsya-natsionalizatsiyi-privatbanku-rozpovila-pro-bank/

https://voxukraine.org/uk/pro-shho-zbrehav-novij-glava-ap-andrij-bogdan-video/

https://voxukraine.org/uk/ekspert-v-usomu-faktchek-televeduchogo-andriya-palchevskogo/

https://voxukraine.org/uk/alternativna-realnist-vid-kolomojskogo-faktchek/ 

VoxUkraine (which is a organization for the VoxCheck project) is a non-partisan NGO. This principle is noted in the Policies and Procedures Manual of the organization. As a fact-checking project, VoxCheck checks both sides of the political debates, which means that we've equally fact-checked previous president Petro Poroshenko as well as all presidential candidates in 2019, the Prime-Minister, the opposition leaders Yulia Tymoshenko, Yury Boiko, Oleg Liashko, etc. This can be seen on our website, from our online data-base (access can be provided on demand) and on the online platform: https://nepravda.org.

VoxUkraine also demands from 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 VoxUkraine website contains a disclaimer on potential conflict of interest or its absence.

Also, none of the members 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 into politics. However, we consider it will be very important to reflect this policy in Policies and Procedures Manual and not hire those candidates that are engaged into political activities. 

VoxCheck has clear policy manual stating non-partisanship and unbiased approach to all politicians covered in the reports. This policy also is stated at the FAQ-page of VoxCheck https://voxukraine.org/uk/voxcheck-f-a-q/ 

VoxCheck uses only public official primary sources that can be shown on the web directly or, if not available, publishes the scans of the primary sources (info received from the authorities). In this way each fact-check can be double-checked by the readers by clicking on the links of the sources.

We refuse making fact-check if we cannot find a public source as a proof. All the links are embeded in the fact-checks which can be seen on our web-site or online platform nepravda.org

All fact-check reports that I looked through have embedded links to the sources of information that you can "click-and-check". The sources that were used are reliable and high-quality. The sources using policy is available for the readers through the link on the FAQ page https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DjfsPY2TsRBwnHAu9emjKFy45KaP196W3xJPtaGO54Q/edit

VoxUkraine is a non-profit organization that aims at diversifying its fundraising sources. 

1) According to its Policies and Procedures Manual, Vox Ukraine Funding from a single entity or the size of a single grant should not be greater than 33% of organization’s annual budget. 

2) Funding from a single private individual should not be greater than 10% of organization’s annual budget.

VoxUkraine uses the following fundraising sources: Donor grants. VoxUkraine raises project-aimed and institutional funds from donor organizations if funding conditions and potential projects help to implement VoxUkraine’s mission, which is to raise the level of economic discussion in Ukraine. The majority of financial committee members must approve the grant application submission VoxUkraine rejects or returns funds to donors (including those raised from both entities and private individuals) if such decision is made by the majority of financial committee members. If donor (private individual or entity), who financially supported VoxUkraine did not state the preference for anonymity, his name (or name of the entity) would be stated in the VoxUkraine’s annual financial report. If donor stated the preference for anonymity or did not want to reveal the amount of money donated, VoxUkraine would not disclose such information. Donors and editorial policy No donor shall intervene in the VoxUkraine editorial policy or influence VoxUkraine content in any way. If donor tries to influence VoxUkraine content or its other activities, members of Editorial Board must be notified. If the majority of editorial board members think that a donor has an undue influence on the editorial process, any member of editorial board or management of VoxUkraine, they shall consult Ethical Committee, who would make a decision on this matter.

In the atached document, you can find our financing in 2016-2017 (also it available on our website in Ukrainian, Russian and English: https://voxukraine.org/uk/reports/). Our financing in 2018 you can find in the end of this page (it's our Annual report 2018) - https://voxukraine.org/report2018/index.html.

VoxUkraine is revealing financial information (funding sources&amounts and expenses structure) in the annual reports on the page https://voxukraine.org/uk/reports/ 

The latest one is for 2018, yet on the page "about us" https://voxukraine.org/uk/about-us/#friends, yet there is no link to 2018 report. 

I would suggest to update it for user friendly approach.

VoxUkraine employees, VoxUkraine Editorial Board, and all people who are involved into VoxUkraine can be found here: https://voxukraine.org/uk/about-us/

(available in Ukrainian, Russian and English)

The information about VoxUkraine Board members is full and published here https://voxukraine.org/uk/about-us/#board

All the names, photos, description of the role in the VoxCheck newsroom (position) are presented on the VoxCheck FAQ page https://voxukraine.org/uk/voxcheck-f-a-q/#checkers .

At the same time there is no biographies and links that can lead to tag-by-author list of stories.

I would suggest to update the information about the authors and key staff members.

There are several ways readers can get in touch with the author or newsroom: comments under articles, links and buttons to the social networks’ accounts, “contact us” page: https://voxukraine.org/en/contuct-us_eng/ 

(available in Ukrainian, Russian and English)

There are:

- pop-up screen for the submitting claim to check, that can be used for comments as well.

- subscription box at the bottom of the browser screen.

- links to the social networks FB, Twitter, Youtube, Telegram and Medium on the left side of the screen

- LInk to "Contact us" is located in a footer and it is not easy to find. I would suggest to put is as a icon to the left side together with social networks icons.

Our methodology (Ukrainian language) can be found here: https://voxukraine.org/uk/voxcheck-f-a-q/#quotes

Our Manual for volunteers (Ukrainian language): https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ypn_6jITNBabR962m8ouGl8A3hl3_x7uVZqQE7klHu0

Detailed methodology is available on the web-site. It is written in a way that helps reader easy to understand how the fact-check was done.                                                                                                     

The claims are submitted via:

- our website (pop-up menu): https://voxukraine.org/uk/voxcheck/

- Facebook page, personal messages or comments: https://www.facebook.com/VoxCheck/

There is a pop-up coming out right after site started to browse.

Facebook page also works well for submission of the claim.

No frequency of readers submitted claims checks statistics available on the site.

Our correction policy can be found in our methodology (Ukrainian language): https://voxukraine.org/uk/voxcheck-f-a-q/

Correcting mistakes policy presented on the website https://voxukraine.org/uk/voxcheck-f-a-q/#mistakes has just brief description with no details.

I would suggest to update the policy with detailed explanation of the types of mistakes and how they are treated, as well as how corrections are marked so the reader can find corrections easily in the content of the VoxCheck.                                 

https://voxukraine.org/uk/vijskovij-faktchek-vidpovid-voxcheck-na-list-anatoliya-gritsenka-shhodo-perevirki-jogo-sliv/

https://voxukraine.org/uk/shist-mifiv-pro-ukrayinsku-gts-voxcheck-zayav-yuliyi-timoshenko/ (check here the red text) 

https://voxukraine.org/uk/chi-pravdive-tverdzhennya-gritsenka-pro-te-shho-ukrayina-kupuye-rosijskij-gaz-voxcheck-na-voxcheck/

The examples of corrections that are presented by VoxCheck clearly stating what was corrected with explanations and links to the sources.

At the same time if I would like to find the stories that are corrected, there is no special marks or signs (i.e. "CORRECTION" in the headline)