Research brief
What public research says about AI assistants and news verification
A source-backed look at sourcing errors, stale answers, and why AI output needs evidence operations before it becomes copy.
The Evidence Room
A field journal for claims that need to survive contact with sources.
Verity's blog is being rebuilt as an operator-grade source room: fewer generic posts, more real research, sharper workflows, and practical evidence patterns for journalists, analysts, compliance teams, researchers, and AI builders.
Editorial rule
Source first
Newsletter shape
One claim per issue
Public posture
No invented metrics
Updated reading list
Real-world information, cleaned for evidence-safe publishing.
Operator checklist
Five signs a claim needs deeper verification
A practical checklist for selective truth, missing dates, weak sourcing, and context drift.
Workflow blueprint
A newsroom verification workflow that survives deadline pressure
A blueprint for moving from scattered tabs to source trails, review states, correction briefs, and audit exports.
Methodology
Why consensus helps, and why it is not enough
Consensus can expose disagreement, but sources, freshness, provenance, and human review decide whether a claim is defensible.
Source board
The blog now has to pass the same smell test as the product.
Every public research claim should either cite a source, be visibly framed as Verity's opinion, or be removed. That makes the blog more trustworthy and gives accelerator reviewers fewer reasons to doubt the larger product story.
Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2025
Global concern about telling true from false online remains high, with Africa and the United States among the highest concern regions.
EBU/BBC AI assistant study
Public service media organizations found significant issues across many AI assistant news answers, especially sourcing and accuracy.
NIST AI Risk Management Framework
A useful risk vocabulary for trustworthy, transparent, governable AI workflows.
Temporal notes
Posts should say when information was checked and what would make it stale.
Source ledger
Research posts should include the source trail that shaped the conclusion.
Newsletter ready
Each article should be convertible into a short Evidence Ops Brief issue.