Debunk / Fact-Check
Adjudicates one specific, checkable claim and issues a clear verdict with the evidence shown.
- YouTube (long)
- YouTube Shorts
- TikTok
The long-form guide for this format is still being written. Everything below is complete and is what the quiz scores against.
Best for
- People with domain expertise and a tolerance for being disagreed with
- Anyone who enjoys primary sources
- Niches full of confident misinformation
Not ideal for
- Anyone who will not publish a correction when they get one wrong
- Creators who need to be liked
- Topics where the evidence is genuinely ambiguous — the format promises a verdict
Five ways to start
- 01The statistic in your field that everyone repeats and nobody sources
- 02A viral claim, traced back to its original study
- 03What the study actually measured, versus what the headline said
- 04A myth that is true but for entirely the wrong reason
- 05Grading your own field's most popular explainer video
How it changes per platform
YouTube (long)
Show the source on screen with the relevant line highlighted. A debunk that asks to be trusted is doing the thing it criticises.
YouTube Shorts
Claim, verdict, one piece of evidence. Nothing else fits.
TikTok
Expect the original poster's audience in your comments. Decide your moderation policy before you publish, not after.
Channels doing this well
No examples are listed yet. Every channel on this site is checked against the live platform and signed off by a person before it appears, and none have been signed off for this format — so rather than list plausible guesses, this section stays empty.