Fact-Checking Policy

What gets checked

• Every figure: prices, rates, yields, fees, APYs, spreads, coverage limits, minimums, percentages and dates.
• Every attributed statement: who said it, in what document or forum, and in what context.
• Every regulatory claim: the authorising body, the entity authorised, and the register entry supporting it.
• Every product term on a money page, against the provider's own published documentation.
• Every causal claim: whether the evidence actually supports the connection we are drawing.

How a check is carried out

• Primary source first: regulators, central banks, statistical agencies, company filings, official registers and provider documentation.
• Secondary reporting may point us at a fact but is never the basis for publishing it.
• Each checked data point is recorded with the source URL and the date it was checked.
• Where two credible sources disagree, we publish both and say that they disagree.
• Where a fact cannot be established, it is removed. We do not hedge an unverified number into print.

Numbers that change

Financial data ages. Rates, fees and market levels are published with the date they were verified, and pages that depend on them carry a visible last-verified date. When a data point passes our review interval without re-verification, it is re-checked or removed rather than left to imply it is current.

Market data

Market values on Wallcrest Media come from a single data layer that carries an explicit status label and, where licensed, provider attribution and a timestamp. If no live feed is connected, no values are shown at all. We never display illustrative prices that a reader could mistake for quotes.

AI and automation

Automated tools may assist with research, transcription and data collection. They are not a source. No figure, quotation or claim enters a Wallcrest Media page on the authority of a language model: it is verified against a primary document by a person before publication, and the same standard applies whether a draft was assisted or not.

When a check fails after publication

If a verified fact turns out to be wrong, the article is corrected with a dated note under our corrections policy. If the underlying claim can no longer be supported at all, the article is withdrawn with an explanation. Errors are reported to corrections@wallcrestmedia.com.