How we check every quote
Every quote checked against the source. This page explains exactly what that sentence means, what it does not mean, and shows you the current numbers so you can judge it yourself.
NOT ASSERTED: we verify that quoted text appears in the source, not that the claim is true.
The mechanism
- We only read sources we publish. Every briefing chapter carries the outlets it was built from, linked. If a citation has no public link, it is shown greyed out and unlinked rather than as a link that goes nowhere.
- Quotes are extracted, not written. A quote can only enter a brief if the exact character run appears in the article text we fetched. It is stored with the character offset where it was found. A near-match is not a match, and it is discarded.
- You can check it in one click. Every pull quote links straight to the quoted passage in the original article, scrolled to and highlighted. If our quote and the source disagree, you will see it immediately.
- Our words are labeled as ours. Chapter summaries are marked “Our summary”. Quoted material is marked “Verbatim from the source”. The boundary is never left to inference.
The numbers, right now
Read live from our database when you loaded this page. We publish the denominators, not just the wins.
56
Sources read
Feeds currently enabled and polled every morning.
60
Briefings published
Each one stays fixed at its URL after publish. An edition, not a live feed.
100%
Chapters with linked sources
801 of 801 chapters carry at least one citation.
64
Quotes you can check in one click
Of 111 quotes published in briefings, these link to a readable source at the exact passage. The rest are still matched character for character, but the source is paywalled, has changed, or cannot be reached, and they are labeled that way rather than presented as checkable.
12%
Articles with full text
2,201 of 18,450 ingested items have enough article text to verify a quote against. Feeds that ship only a summary paragraph cannot produce a verified quote, so they produce none.
The floors we set for ourselves
These three numbers were fixed before they were measured, and they are published whether we clear them or not. Below any one of them, the sentence at the top of this page weakens automatically. It is not a human decision, so it cannot be quietly skipped.
What we do not claim
- We are not a fact-checking organization. We check that a quote matches its source. We do not rule on whether the source is telling the truth.
- We are not audited or certified by anyone. This page is written and maintained by the Wakewire team, and it describes our own practices.
- We do not claim to be error free. Summaries are drafted by language models under the rules above, and models make mistakes. That is precisely why quotes are extracted rather than generated, and why every one links out.
- We do not paraphrase inside quotation marks. If it is in quotation marks on Wakewire, it is verbatim.
How Wakewire is made
Feeds are fetched and article text is retrieved automatically each morning. Chapter headings, summaries, and key points are drafted by language models from that text and reviewed against these rules before an edition is published. Quotes, attributions, and source links are produced by deterministic code, not by a model.
Found an error? Tell us.
If a quote does not match its source, or a chapter misreads what an article said, write to hello@wakewire.ai with the briefing link. We correct the published briefing and note the correction in it, rather than editing it quietly.
Every correction is published in the corrections log, including the ones that make us look bad. 0 logged so far.