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Fact-Checking and Sources

Learn to separate confident wording from verified evidence and check important claims.

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What you will learn

1. Explain how fact-checking and sources fits into safe, practical AI use

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2. Apply separate confident wording from verified evidence and check important claims

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3. Recognise the main quality or safety risk in this topic

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4. Record evidence of a checked and useful result

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Step-by-step practice

Step 1. Read the purpose of Fact-Checking and Sources and identify the result you need.
Step 2. Prepare a harmless example, approved source or fictional data set.
Step 3. Apply the page method to separate confident wording from verified evidence and check important claims.
Step 4. Check the result for accuracy, privacy, clarity, fairness and usefulness.
Step 5. Complete this activity: Select three factual claims from an AI response and verify them against primary sources.
Safe and responsible practice: Only include information needed for the task. Replace personal or confidential details with safe placeholders.

Practical activity

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Select three factual claims from an AI response and verify them against primary sources.

Good-practice checklist

State one clear goal
Add only useful context
Specify the output format
Review and refine the response
Complete the practical activity for fact-checking and sources
Record what changed after review
Check the result on a mobile device
Ask a qualified person when consequences are significant

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