# Social Source and Claim Check

Verify every consequential claim, number, quotation, image, clip, link, and missing context before a compressed social message is approved for publication.

## Usage note

Apply this check to the final post and final media preview, not only to an early script. It supports editorial verification but cannot decide specialist legal, medical, financial, safety, or regulatory questions. Escalate those claims to qualified reviewers. Speed, trend participation, and limited space do not reduce the duty to preserve context, attribution, consent, and a workable correction record.

## How to use this template

1. Capture the exact final post, attached media, preview card, alternative text, intended account, platform, and scheduled time.
2. Break the object into explicit and implied claims, then mark each claim by type, consequence, and specialist-review need.
3. Trace each material claim to evidence, checking method, scope, date, attribution, rights, consent, and missing context.
4. Inspect the rendered post and destination for cropping, misleading emphasis, variable errors, inaccessible evidence, or factual drift.
5. Record approval, monitoring triggers, source-change ownership, and the correction action available after publication.

## Blank template

### Publishing object

- **Post ID or campaign:** [Internal reference]
- **Platform and account:** [Exact publisher]
- **Final copy:** [Paste complete text]
- **Media and version:** [File reference]
- **Alternative text or captions:** [Final text]
- **Link and preview:** [Destination and rendered title]
- **Scheduled time and zone:** [Exact value]
- **Responsible editor:** [Name or role]

### Claim inventory

- **Claim:** [Exact words or reasonable implication]
- **Claim type:** [Fact, number, comparison, cause, quotation, prediction, or another]
- **Location:** [Caption, overlay, audio, image, tag, or link preview]
- **Reader consequence:** [Low, medium, high, with reason]
- **Evidence:** [Primary source and stable location]
- **Evidence scope:** [Population, period, geography, or conditions]
- **Missing context:** [What must remain visible]
- **Specialist review:** [Needed role or not required]
- **Decision:** [Approve, revise, remove, or escalate]

### Media, rights, and attribution

- **Original creator:** [Name or organization]
- **Original date and context:** [Where and when]
- **Edits made:** [Crop, speed, color, audio, excerpt, or overlay]
- **Permission or license:** [Record and conditions]
- **People depicted:** [Consent or editorial basis]
- **Credit wording:** [Exact form]
- **Synthetic or staged elements:** [Disclosure]
- [ ] Media has not been reversed, relabeled, or detached from its event.
- [ ] The crop does not remove information that changes meaning.
- [ ] Audio, subtitle, and visual claims agree.

### Release and correction

- **Source opened by:** [Reviewer and date]
- **Quotation checked by:** [Reviewer and location]
- **Number recalculated or confirmed:** [Method]
- **Final preview approved:** [Name and evidence]
- **Source-monitoring trigger:** [Correction, update, expiry, or event]
- **Post-publication owner:** [Role and coverage]
- **Correction options:** [Edit, reply, replacement, or removal]
- **Decision record:** [Approved wording and rationale]