How we check things
A channel about wrong beliefs is worth nothing if it adds new ones. So here is exactly what happens to a claim before it reaches the board.
Every claim is checked before it is drawn
The order matters. Fact-checking happens after the script is written and before the voice-over is recorded. At that point a correction costs one edit. After recording it would cost a new voice-over, a new board and a new render — and that is exactly the pressure that makes people leave a shaky claim in.
Three verdicts, not two
- Verified — we found a primary source and it says what we say it says.
- Wrong — the claim does not survive. It goes out, or it becomes the myth.
- Unverified — we could not confirm it. This is a verdict of its own, and it is the default for anything we could not trace.
That third verdict is the one that matters. Plenty of repeated-everywhere facts have no primary source at all — the pleasing detail that a matador's cape is red to hide blood, for one. We could dress a guess up as a fact and nobody would notice. Instead we say we could not verify it, out loud and in writing. A claim we cannot check is not a claim we present.
The checker is never the writer
A model asked to check its own text agrees with itself — so the check is done by a different one from the one that drafted the script, and disagreements are raised to a person rather than quietly rewritten. Silently "fixing" a fact means replacing the author's claim with a second guess, which is how errors get laundered into confidence.
The sources are published, not implied
"Studies show" is not a source. Every claim ships with the actual reference — author, venue, year, and a link where one exists — on the video's page here, in the PDF, and in the video description. If we cannot name it, we say so instead.
We will not invent a citation to look thorough. On a site about checking things, a fabricated source would be the worst thing we could publish.
How it is made
The drawings come from our own drawing engine — the same hand, the same marker, board after board — and machine assistance is used where it touches craft, never where it touches facts. Every board and every claim list is reviewed by a person before anything ships.
When we get it wrong
We will. When it happens: the correction goes in the description and on this site's page for that video, and if the error changes the answer, it goes out to The Redraw subscribers too. No silent edits, no quietly re-uploaded files.
Found something we got wrong? Write to hello@handorial.com — a correction with a source is the most useful email we can get.