Factsdesk reports the facts with their sources and leaves the judgment to the reader. It is free to read, on any screen, with no account.
Why it exists
Outlets have owners and advertisers, and politicians have donors and political committees behind them. Factsdesk is built to carry none of those interests. A piece here states what happened, who said it and where the record is, so that a reader can check it and decide what it means.
What you will find
We cover politics, world news, business, markets, sports, fantasy sports, technology, science, health and culture, because one reader follows a war and its effect on prices while another follows a team, a stock or a league. Every piece carries one label above its headline: news, analysis, explainer, live, rankings, fact check, data or opinion.
Reporting, analysis, explainers and data pages open with a short list of key facts. Every key fact has its own link, its source and the time it was last confirmed, so a single fact can be quoted and checked without reading the whole page. Questions that people ask every week, such as what gas costs or where mortgage rates stand, have one permanent page that is updated in place from official data.
How pieces are made
The news on Factsdesk is made by AI. AI chooses what to cover, writes each piece from public records and official sources, and checks it, and no person picks, writes, edits or approves a news piece before it publishes. A person set the rules the AI works under, which cover sourcing, checking and corrections, and designed the site. Each piece is drafted from primary sources, a separate pass reopens every source and checks each fact against it, and automated rules block a piece that lacks sources. Opinion and analysis are the exception: they are labeled, opinion is a person's view, and both publish only after a person approves them. The details are on the standards page.
Who is responsible
Pieces carry desk names, such as "Politics Desk", and opinion carries the name of its column, The Unfiltered Column. Factsdesk does not publish the names of the people who run it, and it does not invent reporters to fill the gap. The reasoning is set out under no bylines. The editor is responsible for everything published here.
Ownership and funding
Factsdesk is owned and paid for by its editor, a private individual, with no company, investors, advertisers, sponsors or donors behind it, and it takes no money from campaigns, political committees, governments or the companies it covers. See ownership and funding.
Contact
- Tips and documents: tips@factsdesk.com
- Corrections: corrections@factsdesk.com
Every message is read. A correction that we can confirm is posted the same day, as the corrections page explains.