Loading…
Search issues, trackers, people, glossary, and more
Our evidence, audited
An evidence archive is only as good as its citations. Every source URL cited on this site is automatically audited for link health, and this page publishes the results.
| name | value |
|---|---|
| Confirmed live | 1996 |
| Live but bot-walled | 166 |
| Other status | 43 |
| Dead (repaired) | 0 |
“Live but bot-walled” means the site answered but refuses automated readers (bot challenges, 403s) — those links work in a normal browser. 280 previously bot-walled links have since been re-verified live using a full browser over a residential connection. Only 404/410 responses count as dead — the latest audit found none still cited, and every dead link surfaced by earlier audits was repaired with a working replacement or an Internet Archive snapshot.
Every source URL in the archive is fetched and classified by an automated audit (HTTP status plus content retrieval — not just a HEAD ping). Audits are re-run periodically; the date above is the most recent full pass.
Dead links are replaced with the same story at its new address on the same publication wherever possible, and with an Internet Archive snapshot otherwise. We also submit cited sources to the Wayback Machine on an ongoing basis — 1,621 of 2,205 cited URLs have a snapshot so far — so future link rot can be recovered.
Entries only cite publicly verifiable sources — news reporting, official Reddit statements, court documents, and academic work — and each source is labeled by type on the issue page.
We publish corrections rather than quietly editing. If a claim is wrong, unsupported, or missing context, use the “Spot an error?” link on the issue page concerned — it opens the submission form pre-tagged with that entry, and every report goes through human review. Where a correction changes the substance of an entry, the entry is updated against its sources.
The archive's data is also openly available (CC BY 4.0) so anyone can check our work.