Inquesta · Public policy
What our grades mean
Every claim in an Inquesta report carries a grade. Grades describe how our automated process assessed the available sources — they are process descriptors, never guarantees of truth. Corroborated sources can still be wrong, and automated systems can misread them. The evidence behind every grade is one click away: check it.
“Our automated process found this claim corroborated by at least three independent source origins per our published methodology. This describes source agreement, not certainty — corroborated sources can still be wrong.”
“Asserted by at least one source our process rates as generally reliable, without independent corroboration found.”
“Credible sources materially disagree. We present the strongest version of each position.”
“Circulating claim for which our process found no adequate sourcing either way.”
“Analysis, projection, or inference — clearly not a statement of established fact.”
Claims about named people and companies
Adverse factual claims about named living persons or identifiable companies never appear as bare assertions in Inquesta reports. They are always attributed (“according to {source}…”) and are never graded above the strength of that attribution.