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The team

Built by a journalist and a newsroom, not just a machine.

News Intelligence began as an experiment by Enoch Oyedibu to explore how solutions could be developed to address journalists’ painstaking search for facts in an endless pool of documents, often with limited time to disseminate accurate information. Built on this principle, News Intelligence has since expanded to cover a wide range of challenges faced by newsrooms, organisations, journalists and society. Run by PIJAlance Magazine Limited, News Intelligence is for those who believe verification should be as fast as the rumours it answers.

PIJAlance Magazine Limited

PIJAlance Magazine is a Nigerian publication devoted to investigative storytelling, fact-checking and news intelligence. For years our work has meant tracing claims back to their source and explaining what the evidence really shows. News Intelligence takes that same discipline and puts it within reach of anyone with a phone.

The technology is new. The standards are the ones every good newsroom already keeps.

How the work is shared

Editorial

Sets the verification method, the verdict definitions and the rules for what counts as evidence, and decides which claims must always go to a human.

Fact-checkers and editors

Review the claims the system holds back, such as deaths, elections and disputed official statements, and publish the final verdict under their own name.

Research and data

Maintain the ratings of news outlets and official bodies, the record of past fact-checks and the archive the system searches.

Engineering

Build and run the checking pipeline, the safety checks that stop weak or mixed-up evidence, and the website you are using now.

Our commitments to you

  • Independence. Verdicts follow the evidence, not any political, commercial or personal interest.
  • Transparency. We show our sources, explain our verdicts and say plainly when AI was involved.
  • Correction. If we get something wrong, we fix it openly. Tell us when you spot an error; that is what this testing stage is for.

To reach the team, visit pijalance.com.

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