Fact-Checking Policy
Fact-Checking
How Vegas Report verifies material facts, evaluates sources and handles developing or consequential information.
Vegas Report uses a source-based verification process designed to reduce factual errors and provide readers with appropriate context.
Fact-checking is not limited to confirming isolated details. It also involves determining whether a source supports the claim being made, whether important context is missing and whether uncertain information has been presented with an appropriate level of confidence.
What We Check
Verification depends on the article but may include:
- Names, titles and organizations
- Dates and timelines
- Addresses and geographic information
- Hotel fees, parking charges and other prices
- Hours, schedules and operating policies
- Statistics and calculations
- Quotes and attribution
- Public records and regulatory information
- Event, airport, venue and transportation information
- Sources used in rankings and comparisons
Editors identify the facts material to each article and verify them using sources appropriate to the subject.
Source Priority
Primary sources are preferred where practical. These can include official documents, public records, government data, regulatory filings, company disclosures, official policies, datasets, direct statements and historical records.
Primary material is useful because it allows the editorial team to evaluate information closer to its origin. It does not mean that every statement from an official or company source is automatically independent or complete.
Reputable secondary reporting may be used for context or confirmation, particularly when it contains original reporting not otherwise available. Secondary sources may also help identify disagreements, historical context or areas where the available evidence requires further review.
Verification Workflow
- Identify the factual claims material to the article.
- Find sources appropriate to each claim.
- Compare conflicting information where necessary.
- Confirm important links, figures, names and dates.
- Identify uncertainty or limitations that readers should know.
- Apply additional review to serious or consequential claims.
- Make the final editorial publication decision.
Review depth depends on the type of content, available sourcing and the importance of the claims involved.
Company and Promotional Claims
Company statements and press releases can establish what an organization says, but promotional assertions are not automatically treated as independently verified facts.
Where a claim is important to the article, the wording should make clear whether it is an organization's own statement, a documented fact or an editorial conclusion supported by additional evidence.
Anonymous Sources
Vegas Report rarely uses unnamed sources. When an unnamed source is necessary, the source's identity must be known to the editorial team and material claims should be independently corroborated where possible.
The need for anonymity does not lower the standard for accuracy. The source's access to the information, possible motives and the availability of supporting evidence remain relevant to assessing the claim.
Breaking and Developing Information
Information can change after publication. When facts remain uncertain or a development is ongoing, the article should state that uncertainty rather than imply finality.
A later change in circumstances does not necessarily mean the original article was inaccurate when published. Where new verified information materially changes what readers need to know, an update may be appropriate.
Consequential Claims
Claims involving health, law, finance, safety, real estate, significant consumer costs or other consequential decisions require additional caution and appropriate authoritative sourcing.
Vegas Report does not provide personalized medical, legal, financial, tax, investment or mental health advice. Information on consequential subjects is presented for general editorial and informational purposes.
AI and Verification
Vegas Report does not currently use generative AI to draft articles, translate editorial content, summarize source material or monitor sources.
AI-generated images are not treated as factual sources or documentary evidence. Human editors remain responsible for factual verification and for ensuring that an illustrative visual does not alter the factual meaning of the accompanying editorial material.
After Publication
Readers and sources may identify information that requires additional review. Verified factual errors are corrected according to the Corrections Policy.
Post-publication review may also determine that wording requires clarification or that information has become outdated without having been false when originally published.
Report a possible factual error to corrections@vegas-report.com.
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