Unbiased Fact Verification Framework
A stochastic approach to fact-checking in a post-trust information environment.
Rather than attempting to perfect human judgment, UFVF concentrates expert effort on documenting evidence and then delegates the final verdict on contested claims to a cryptographically auditable randomization process.
Why UFVF?
In the wake of cascading institutional failures and an information environment characterized by radical epistemic fragmentation, traditional fact-checking increasingly faces a legitimacy crisis. Claims of objectivity have become themselves contested political terrain. UFVF does not solve this problem. It makes it explicit.
Learn moreHow It Works
UFVF separates evidence documentation from verdict generation. Trained analysts gather and structure relevant evidence according to standardized protocols. The final determination is then produced by the Stochastic Adjudication Protocol (SAP)—a cryptographically auditable randomization process that is, by design, structurally incapable of bias.
Technical detailsWho We Are
The Institute for Epistemic Stability (IES) is an independent research organization dedicated to developing experimental methodologies for navigating contested information environments. We do not claim to have solved the problem of knowledge. We are working on making the problem more interesting.
About IES"People increasingly doubt that any institution can be both authoritative and neutral. UFVF does not try to solve that problem. Instead, it asks what would happen if we separated careful documentation from the impossible promise of epistemic certainty—and made the decisive step mechanically indifferent to politics."
— IES Research Fellow
Randomized Adjudication Platform (RAP) Pilot Results
Three-month pilot study, 2024
1,247
Claims Processed
4
Verdict Labels
3
Month Duration
A Provocative Reference Design
IES does not endorse the use of UFVF as a replacement for traditional fact-checking in all contexts. Instead, the Institute views UFVF as a provocative reference design for organizations exploring new ways to make their own epistemic assumptions visible—and contestable—to the publics they serve.