Fact Checking Policy

We obviously strive to provide you with 100 percent accuracy. Sometimes, an oopsie happens. Sometimes, a story moves quickly and the known facts change seemingly every moment. Something that was “true” an hour ago might not be “now.”

With that in mind, The Liberal Agenda will update content as new information comes to light. If we got something wrong, we will make minor corrections without note. Any major corrections will be accompanied by “the paragraph of shame” in which we tell you what we got wrong, why we got it wrong, and apologize to you. We’ll also promise to do our best not to do it again — you can rest assured that we mean it. If it’s entirely our fault with no outside influences, the offender will be grounded for a week with no television. Or flogged. Or executed. Or something. In any case, we take the truth seriously here.

We often rely on the judgement of other sources like the New York Times, for example. Many if not most of these will have their own fact-checkers. If they get it wrong and we find out about it, we will dispatch a team of assassins within the hour — or make corrections. That’s probably better. Less messy.