2026-07-28
/sources
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Linked the ADL's "Editing for Hate" report at adl.org/resources/report/editing-hate-how-anti-israel-bias-distorts-wikipedia, an address that returns 404 and has never existed.
Links the report at its real address, adl.org/resources/report/editing-hate-how-anti-israel-and-anti-jewish-bias-undermines-wikipedias-neutrality.
Found by a new audit that captures a copy of every source we cite. The URL had never existed: the Wayback Machine holds no capture of it at any date, while it holds thousands for the same publisher, so this was not a page that moved or was deleted. It was a plausible-looking address that was never checked. The claim itself held up and the real source is now cited. The report is real, was published in March 2025, and documents the roughly 30 coordinated editors we describe.
2026-07-28
/conflict and wiki: al-Ahli hospital
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Cited the French intelligence assessment to a Washington Post URL that returns 404.
Cites the Associated Press report of the same assessment, by John Leicester, carried by the Seattle Times, which is retrievable and names the reporter.
Found by a new audit that captures a copy of every source we cite. The URL had never existed: the Wayback Machine holds no capture of it at any date, while it holds thousands for the same publisher, so this was not a page that moved or was deleted. It was a plausible-looking address that was never checked. The claim itself held up and the real source is now cited. French military intelligence did reach this assessment and briefed it in October 2023; only the address was wrong.
2026-07-28
wiki: Sexual and gender-based violence in the October 7 attacks
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Sourcing
Listed a source described as "French intelligence on the October 7 attack".
The entry is removed.
The link behind it pointed at reporting on the al-Ahli hospital explosion, a different event entirely, and it supported nothing on the page. A source that does not support the claim it sits under is worse than no source, because it invites a reader to assume the rest are the same. The page's remaining sources, including the UN mission's own findings, are unaffected.
2026-07-28
/double-standards
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Dated Amnesty International's Raqqa report to April 2019 and linked a 2019 URL that returns 404.
Links the report at its real address. It was published in June 2018.
Found by a new audit that captures a copy of every source we cite. The URL had never existed: the Wayback Machine holds no capture of it at any date, while it holds thousands for the same publisher, so this was not a page that moved or was deleted. It was a plausible-looking address that was never checked. The claim itself held up and the real source is now cited. The report, "War of annihilation: Devastating toll on civilians, Raqqa", is real and its findings are unchanged.
2026-07-28
/pallywood
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Sourced OCHA's 8 May 2024 revision of its Gaza casualty figures to an ochaopt.org URL that returns 404, and the AP and CNN decision on photographer Hassan Eslaiah to a Times of Israel URL that returns 404.
The OCHA revision is sourced to NPR's report of it, and the photographer story to the Times of Israel article that actually covers it.
Found by a new audit that captures a copy of every source we cite. The URL had never existed: the Wayback Machine holds no capture of it at any date, while it holds thousands for the same publisher, so this was not a page that moved or was deleted. It was a plausible-looking address that was never checked. The claim itself held up and the real source is now cited. Both underlying facts check out: OCHA did cut its figures to 7,797 children and 4,959 women on 8 May 2024 after switching to fully identified names, and AP and CNN did end their work with Eslaiah.
2026-07-28
/un and /conflict
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Linked UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 and the Mandate for Palestine to Avalon Project URLs that return 404. Avalon does not hold Resolution 3379 at all.
Resolution 3379 links to the United Nations' own copy. The Mandate links to the complete text now held on this site.
Found by a new audit that captures a copy of every source we cite. The URL had never existed: the Wayback Machine holds no capture of it at any date, while it holds thousands for the same publisher, so this was not a page that moved or was deleted. It was a plausible-looking address that was never checked. The claim itself held up and the real source is now cited. The Mandate is the better outcome of the two: rather than replacing one outside link with another, the full text is now served here, with its source and a checksum.
2026-07-28
/wikipedia (wiki: Qasem Soleimani)
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Factual
Described Soleimani as "tied to 1,000+ American deaths".
603 American service members, the figure in the Pentagon's April 2019 declassified revision, which is 17 percent of every US death in the Iraq war between 2003 and 2011.
The 1,000+ figure had no source and was contradicted by the page's own body text, which said "hundreds". Found in an internal audit, not reported to us. The sourced number is lower and better: it is the US Defense Department's own count, revised upward from the 500 acknowledged in 2015.
2026-07-28
wiki: Al Jazeera
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Sourcing
Cited network.aljazeera.net, the network's own About Us page, for its founding date, structure and audience reach.
Cites Britannica for the founding and the Qatari state funding. The audience and bureau figures are now labelled as the network's own promotional claims, which have never been independently audited.
A subject is not a neutral source for its own history, and this site does not accept that standard from anyone else. Britannica also carries the sharper finding: the network softens its criticism of Qatar, went pro-government on the 2022 World Cup corruption story, and muffled coverage of the blockade of its own owner.
2026-07-28
/wikipedia (audit cards)
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An audit card pointed the reader to "Sidelining the watchdog, above" for the ADL reliability ruling.
Links to the page that actually carries that detail.
No card or page by that name exists anywhere on the site. The pointer had never resolved.
2026-07-28
/media (pattern cards)
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Two cards ended with "see the card above", pointing at unrelated neighbouring cards.
The pointers are removed and the claims stand on their own text.
The referenced cards did not discuss the subjects in question. The underlying claims were correct; only the cross-references were wrong.
2026-07-28
Fact-check verdict boxes, 13 pages
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Display
The verdict box on 13 fact-check pages, and the description on 13 glossary entries, were cut off mid-word by a build script, for example "the blast came from a Palesti...".
Each box carries complete sentences, rebuilt from the source text at real sentence boundaries.
A character-count truncation in the page generator. The full text was always present further down the page, but the most-read line on each page was broken. The generator now cuts on sentence or word boundaries and can never cut mid-word again.
2026-07-28
/wikipedia, /media
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Duplication
The Tantura and Marwan Barghouti audit cards each appeared twice on the same page, in slightly different wording.
One card each, keeping the more specific version.
Editing error. No factual claim changed; the weaker duplicate was removed.