Our evidence, audited

Transparency

An evidence archive is only as good as its citations. Every source URL cited on this site is automatically audited for link health, and this page publishes the results.

2,131

unique source URLs audited

3,195

citations across the archive

99.1%

reachable at last audit

July 19, 2026

last full audit

Link-health breakdown

Breakdown by category
name	value
Confirmed live	1653
Live but bot-walled	416
Other status	43
Dead (repaired)	19

“Live but bot-walled” means the site answered but refuses automated readers (bot challenges, 403s) — those links work in a normal browser. Only 404/410 responses count as dead, and all 19 found in the last audit were repaired with a working replacement or an Internet Archive snapshot.

Methodology

Every source URL in the archive is fetched and classified by an automated audit (HTTP status plus content retrieval — not just a HEAD ping). Audits are re-run periodically; the date above is the most recent full pass.

Dead links are replaced with the same story at its new address on the same publication wherever possible, and with an Internet Archive snapshot otherwise. We are additionally submitting every cited source to the Wayback Machine so future link rot can always be recovered.

Entries only cite publicly verifiable sources — news reporting, official Reddit statements, court documents, and academic work — and each source is labeled by type on the issue page.

Corrections

We publish corrections rather than quietly editing. If a claim is wrong, unsupported, or missing context, use the “Spot an error?” link on the issue page concerned — it opens the submission form pre-tagged with that entry, and every report goes through human review. Where a correction changes the substance of an entry, the entry is updated against its sources.

The archive's data is also openly available (CC BY 4.0) so anyone can check our work.