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The submitted 269-word item is not a news article. It is the navigation chrome, sign-in module and footer of the 'UK Fact Check Politics' website (ukfactcheck.com), captured for Friday, 18 September 2026, with all hyperlink targets stripped. It contains no reporting, no named author, no dateline on a story and no argument — and therefore almost nothing that can be adjudicated as journalism. Only three checkable assertions exist: (a) an embedded poll-tracker strip reading Lab 23%, Ref 23%, Con 20%, LD 13%, Grn 11%; (b) a corporate copyright line, '© 2026 UK FACT CHECK LIMITED'; and (c) an implied claim of Impress press-regulation membership. Claim (a) verifies exactly against the YouGov/Times/Sky News voting-intention poll of 13–14 September 2026, which is a genuinely strong signal: the tracker is reproducing a real, current, named-pollster figure rather than an invented number. Claim (b) verifies against a live Companies House registration. Claim (c) is self-declared on the publisher's own pages but could not be independently confirmed in the Impress member directory within this research window, and is therefore marked Unverified rather than False. The score of 62 reflects a genuine tension: the verifiable data point is accurate and traceable to a first-tier pollster, but the artefact carries heavy self-promotional framing ('objective fact-checking', 'transparently verified') that a bare sign-in page cannot possibly substantiate, and the publisher's own disclosures indicate AI-assisted production with an explicitly stated 'entertainment purposes' caveat on its automated checker. Readers should treat this capture as a masthead and interface snapshot, not as evidence of editorial quality in either direction. The low emotion score (0.08) and 12 self-references are both artefacts of boilerplate marketing copy, not of persuasive reporting.
What checked out (4)
- Poll tracker strip 'Lab 23%, Ref 23%, Con 20%, LD 13%, Grn 11%' matches exactly the YouGov voting-intention poll for The Times and Sky News conducted 13–14 September 2026, in which Reform UK and Labour were both on 23%, the Conservatives on 20%, the Liberal Democrats on 13% and the Greens on 11%.
- The dateline 'Friday, September 18, 2026' is internally consistent: 18 September 2026 does fall on a Friday.
- The corporate entity named in the footer, UK FACT CHECK LIMITED, corresponds to a real company registered at Companies House under number 14701896 (England & Wales), with a registered office at 63/66 Hatton Garden, London EC1N 8LE.
- The site's stated section architecture (Politics, NHS, Elections, Middle East, Fact Checking News, Editorial, World, UK) and its About/Masthead, Editorial Standards, Corrections and Complaints pages exist as described on the live ukfactcheck.com domain.
Unverified claims 4 claims ⌄
- The footer badge implying 'Impress regulated member': the publisher self-declares Impress regulation on its complaints and corrections pages, but no independent listing of UK Fact Check in the Impress member directory or regulated-publications list was retrievable during this research window. Status: Unverified — not False.
- The strapline 'Independent reporting, transparently verified by objective fact-checking': this is an unfalsifiable self-characterisation. 'Objective' is not an auditable property, and no third-party accreditation (e.g. IFCN signatory status, EFCSN membership) was located.
- 'Everything we publish is free to read' / 'Independent, reader-funded, no paywall': consistent with the site's own funding disclosure, but ownership, revenue split between donations and 'Paid Partners', and funder identities were not independently verified.
- Whether the displayed poll strip is dynamically and consistently sourced to a named pollster: the captured strip carries no attribution, date of fieldwork, sample size or pollster name. The underlying figures verify, but the presentation does not disclose provenance to the reader.
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Confidence
Medium — Confidence is Medium rather than High for two distinct reasons, which pull in different directions. On the verified side, confidence is genuinely high: the poll figures match a named first-tier pollster's release exactly, and the corporate registration is confirmed on a government register — these findings are precise and reproducible. On the unverified side, the Impress membership claim could not be resolved either way, because the regulator's directory could not be enumerated through search; that is a limitation of the research method, not evidence against the publisher, and it is recorded as such. The dominant constraint on confidence, however, is the artefact itself: 269 words of navigation menus, a sign-in form and a footer offer an extremely thin basis for any trust judgement about a publisher. A higher or lower score would both be over-claims. The 62 therefore signals 'accurate where checkable, unproven where it matters most' — and should be revised substantially in either direction once substantive bylined reporting from this outlet, with intact citations, is assessed.
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UK Fact Check Politics IMPRESS regulated publisher
- https://www.impressorg.com/publications/politics-uk/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impress_(regulator)
- https://www.politics.co.uk/reference/press-regulation/
- https://www.ukfactcheck.com/
- https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/13825685
UK voting intention poll Labour Reform Conservative September 2026
- https://yougov.com/en-gb/articles/55556-voting-intention-13-14-september-2026-lab-23-ref-23-con-20-ld-13-grn-11
- https://yougov.com/en-gb/articles/55507-voting-intention-6-7-september-2026-lab-23-ref-23-con-20-grn-12-ld-11
- https://www.opinium.com/resource-center/voting-intention-9th-september-2026/
- https://www.pollcheck.co.uk/gb-polls
- https://britpolls.co.uk/polls/voting-intention/
IMPRESS regulated publishers list fact check
- https://www.impressorg.com/about-us/further-information/faqs/
- https://www.impressorg.com/about-us/who-we-are/our-regulatory-scheme/
- https://www.impressorg.com/standards/impress-standards-code/our-standards-code/
- https://impress.press/complaints/regulated-publishers.html
Impress member directory UK Fact Check Politics ukfactcheck.com
- https://www.impressorg.com/join-us/our-members/member-directory/
- https://www.ukfactcheck.com/complaints-procedure
- https://www.ukfactcheck.com/corrections
- https://www.ukfactcheck.com/fact-checker
ukfactcheck.com about masthead editorial standards
- https://www.ukfactcheck.com/about
- https://www.ukfactcheck.com/editorial-standards
- https://www.ukfactcheck.com/fact-checking
- https://www.ukfactcheck.com/advocacy
UK FACT CHECK POLITICS LTD company 13825685 officers
- https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/13825685
- https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/13825685/officers
- https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/14701896
UK FACT CHECK LIMITED 14701896 company status registered office Hatton Garden