Fact-Checking Policy

What We Check

• Names, roles and organizations;
• Dates and timelines;
• Locations and geographic descriptions;
• Statistics, rankings and numerical claims;
• Company and project information;
• Quotations and attribution;
• Government and institutional statements;
• Legal and regulatory claims;
• Security, migration and political claims;
• Charts, maps, screenshots and data sources;
• Links to supporting documentation.

The level of checking required depends on the nature of the claim, the quality of the available evidence and the consequences of presenting uncertain information as established fact.

Source Hierarchy

Primary documentation is preferred where available and appropriate. This may include government documents, public records, company filings, official datasets, regulatory material and institutional publications.

Secondary reporting, academic research, specialist publications and expert commentary may be used for confirmation, interpretation and context.

A source is evaluated according to what it can reliably establish. An official announcement can verify that an announcement was made while still requiring additional evidence for broader claims contained within it.

Interested Sources

Governments, companies, political actors and other interested parties may provide useful information, but their claims are evaluated according to the available evidence.

An official statement is not automatically independent verification of the statement's underlying claims. The interests, role and access of the source may be relevant to how the information is presented.

Anonymous Sources

Maghreb Insider rarely relies on unnamed sources. Anonymous-source claims should be corroborated wherever reasonably possible, particularly when allegations are sensitive or reputationally significant.

Uncertainty

Where reliable information remains incomplete, disputed or provisional, the article should communicate that uncertainty rather than present an assumption as established fact.

This can be especially important in developing political, security, corporate or infrastructure stories where early accounts may change as additional records or statements become available.

AI and Verification

Maghreb Insider does not use AI for editorial research, source selection, source monitoring, fact-checking, article writing, drafting, rewriting, summarization, translation, metadata, descriptions, tagging, categorization or other editorial text.

AI use is limited to creating, preparing or editing images and other visual materials. Any AI-assisted visual must be reviewed by a human editor before publication and must not be presented as documentary evidence when it is synthetic or materially altered.

AI-assisted visuals must not fabricate or misrepresent evidence, documents, quotations, people, events, statistics or credentials.