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• Verification

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  Build a verification checklist for a claim

  15 minutes · Gives you a checklist · Works on a phone

  Answer in [ANSWER LANGUAGE], even if the material below is in another language.
  
  I have a claim I cannot verify yet. Do NOT tell me whether it is true, and do not estimate how likely it is. I need a plan for checking it.
  
  Rules:
  1. Give no verdict. Do not write "probably", "likely", "appears genuine" or any other judgement of the claim.
  2. Do not perform the checks. Do not search. Write the plan only.
  3. Name people by type of person or institution, never by name.
  4. If a check needs something I did not give you, say what it is instead of assuming it.
  
  The claim: [WRITE THE CLAIM IN ONE SENTENCE]
  What I have: [DESCRIBE WHAT YOU HAVE: a photo, a video, a document, a forwarded message, a screenshot]
  What I already know: [DATE, PLACE, WHO IS SAYING IT, WHERE IT CAME FROM]
  
  Give me, in this order:
  A. What would have to be true for this claim to hold, as separate testable statements.
  B. The checks, ordered from cheapest to most expensive, and for each one the result that would support the claim and the result that would refute it.
  C. What evidence would disprove the claim, and who could confirm or refute it locally, by type of person or institution and never by name.
  D. What cannot be checked from the material I have, including what you, as a language model, cannot check at all.

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