About

You Typed That documents notable public online posts with the context needed to understand them. We started with racist and bigoted content because there is far too much of it — and because screenshots without verification create problems of their own.

The premise is simple: if you chose to post it publicly, people are allowed to see what you posted.

What a receipt is

A receipt is a single documented post. It has a permanent number, the evidence, a short account of what happened, and — where it earns its place — a line or two of commentary. The screenshot does most of the work. We are not interested in telling you that something is bad when you can read it yourself.

Every receipt is checked by an editor before it is published. A screenshot arriving in our inbox is not, on its own, a reason to publish anything.

What this is not

This is not a harassment campaign, a doxxing service, or a crowdsourced blacklist. We do not publish home addresses, phone numbers, employers, or family information. We do not tell readers to contact anyone, report anyone, review-bomb a business, or turn up anywhere. There are no accounts, no comments, no upvotes and no leaderboards on this site, and that is a deliberate design decision rather than a feature we have not got to yet.

We are also not a fully automated system. No algorithm decides whether something belongs here.

Private people and public accounts

We use greater restraint with ordinary private individuals than with public officials, candidates, public-facing creators and business accounts. For a private individual, the default is to publish the post and withhold the identity — because the post is the story, and the person's name usually is not.

When we get it wrong

We correct material factual errors promptly and visibly, on the receipt itself. If the underlying evidence turns out to be false, manipulated, or attributed to the wrong person, the receipt comes down and the correction stays up. Removed receipts keep their number and their URL, so the record shows what happened rather than quietly changing shape.