Transparency · how scoring works
Your score, explained in full
TruScan is an ally, not a judge. The goal is to reward honest, well-sourced content — not punish imperfection, which is impossible. Here's exactly how a trust score is built, and the rules that protect you from being wrongly penalized.
Five dimensions, one score
Your public number is a weighted blend of five things — so a meticulous, transparent creator can earn a great badge even without perfect accuracy. Opinions are labelled and never counted.
Difficulty-weighted
Checking numeric, political or scientific claims is harder and riskier than lifestyle content, so those claims carry more weight — derived from the claim type, never a subjective dial. Tackling hard truths is rewarded, not penalised.
Corrections count for you
Issuing a timely, prominent correction raises your score and earns an integrity credit. Owning a mistake is the behaviour we most want to reward — with anti-farming guards so it can't be gamed.
The badge ladder
Scores map to five tiers. The badge evolves as you climb — a growing checkmark-in-a-lens you can wear across every platform.
You can't be wrongly penalised — by design
A negative verdict (“false” / “misleading”) is the costliest kind of error, so it is treated with far more caution than a missed lie. It never touches your score until it clears due process:
- Provisional first. A negative verdict starts under review — not counted — while it's checked.
- Higher bar to convict. A “false” needs a second independent model to agree, ≥0.85 confidence, and ≥2 independent sources. A “verified” needs far less — the harmful call pays the higher price of proof.
- Fidelity gates. Shaky transcription, uncertain speaker attribution, missing context, or “unverifiable” all mean not scored — never a penalty.
- You're told first. A right-of-reply window opens before anything counts.
- Disputes are asymmetric. It's easy to get a possible wrong penalty re-examined, and hard for a mob to manufacture one (that needs agreement across normally-opposed groups).
- Reversal is total. Because it was provisional, an overturned verdict never dropped your score in the first place.
The rules we hold ourselves to
You can never buy a score
Money and perks reward participation, accuracy and transparency — they can never purchase the accuracy number. The day a score is for sale, the badge is worthless.
Your drafts are private
The pre-publish checker never publishes, stores, scores, or trains on your unreleased work. It's yours.
Community votes never set a score directly — they can only trigger a fresh, source-based re-audit. The evidence is always the judge. Everyone gets a right of reply and an appeal.