The Ledger

The score is simple on purpose. A reporter's accuracy is the share of their logged reports that later came true, measured only on reports old enough to have an outcome; recent reports stay pending and do not count either way. Volume is shown next to it because a reporter with ten reports and a reporter with two hundred are not the same evidence. The confidence score you see on every rumor across the site is derived from this ledger: the reporter's track record, how many independent reporters said the same thing, and how specific the claim is.

We log what the reporter wrote, not what the headline said, and we attribute every report to its author. Denials count as outcomes too. When a report is later contradicted by the official transaction wire, the ledger marks it, and the reporter's number moves. The list below is the whole record, newest first, with a page for each reporter.