Verification & truth review
How a submission becomes a citation in a Handala response.
- 01
Submission
A contributor proposes a new resource via the public form, with required metadata and source URL.
- 02
Initial review
An editor checks formatting, metadata completeness, and surface credibility (publisher, author, date).
- 03
Fact-checking
Claims are cross-referenced against existing corpus material and at least one independent source.
- 04
Multi-reviewer validation
Disputed or sensitive submissions require sign-off from at least two reviewers from different backgrounds.
- 05
Publication
Approved resources are indexed into the vector store and become available for citation.
- 06
Ongoing audit
Flags from users trigger re-review. Disputed content is annotated rather than silently removed.
When something is disputed
Handala does not pretend certainty it does not have. Disputed claims are surfaced with context, and answers prefer named, traceable sources over consensus framing.