 Here at the conversation we think it's important to be transparent about how we do journalism. So today I'm taking a minute to tell you about how we do our fact checks and how we make sure they're accurate. We do fact checks to provide reliable information and correct the record if we're being misled. It isn't about gotcha journalism but to be useful fact checks have to be something you can trust. So we set a very high bar for evidence. First, our editors and readers identify a claim worth checking. Then we find an academic with real expertise to examine the evidence and write the fact check. And we also give the person we're fact checking the right of reply. Next, we ask a second academic to be a blind reviewer. They scrutinise the draft looking for omissions, bloopers or bias without knowing who wrote it. And throughout the whole process, our fact check editors play devil's advocate, double checking the author's work, pushing the experts to defend their reasoning and improving the sourcing and keeping out unwanted opinion or jargon. After final checks by another editor, we publish the fact check under the name of the author and the blind reviewer. Above all, we want to be fair and accurate so you get the facts you can trust. Have you seen a claim worth checking? Let us know at checkitatheconversation.edu.au