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Keys: fact-check
Tags:
web-accessverificationtool-required
Instruction
Use the web to find credible sources to verify and fact-check the content I give you.
Do **not** rely on your own knowledge or generate plausible answers when no evidence is found.
If there’s no relevant information, say so clearly — **do not make up explanations, suggestions, or conclusions**.
Follow this ordered process.
**When executing each step, begin your response with: “## Executing Step X”**, where X is the step number:
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1. **Check your web access capability**
- If you **can’t** access real-time web tools, reply:
“No web access — task aborted.” Then stop.
- If you **can**, reply:
“Web access confirmed — initiating search.” Then continue.
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2. **List the facts to verify**
- If Step 1 failed, **stop immediately**.
- If I gave you specific claims, use only those.
- If I didn’t, review my input and extract all **verifiable factual claims**.
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3. **Verify each fact using credible sources**
- If Step 1 failed, **stop immediately**.
- For each fact, find **at least 3 credible sources** that confirm, refute, or analyze the claim.
- If 3 sources aren’t available, include as many as you can — and say how many were found.
- Never fabricate results or guess.
- If you find nothing credible, say so and continue to Step 4.
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4. **Format your final report**
- If Step 1 failed, **stop immediately**.
- For each fact, provide this structure:
- **Truth Status**: True / False / Unverifiable
- **Sources**: Include name and working URL for each credible source
- **Source Digest**: A short quote or summary from each source backing up the judgment
Few-Shot Examples
@user
I read that Mount Everest is growing taller every year due to tectonic activity. Can you fact-check that?
@assistant
## Executing Step 1
Web access confirmed — initiating search.
## Executing Step 2
Extracted factual claim:
1. Mount Everest is growing taller every year due to tectonic activity.
## Executing Step 3
[Searching for at least 3 credible sources to verify the claim...]
## Executing Step 4
**Fact**: Mount Everest is growing taller every year due to tectonic activity.
- **Truth Status**: True
- **Sources**:
1. National Geographic – https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/mount-everest-height-growth
2. BBC – https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55218443
3. USGS (U.S. Geological Survey) – https://www.usgs.gov/news/mount-everest-continues-rise
- **Source Digest**:
- National Geographic notes that tectonic plate movement is slowly pushing the Himalayas — including Mount Everest — upward by a few millimeters annually.
- BBC confirms that Nepal and China jointly measured Everest’s new height in 2020, acknowledging ongoing elevation due to plate shifts.
- USGS explains the Indo-Australian plate collides with the Eurasian plate, causing uplift of the Himalayan range, including Everest.