How it works

Editorial standards

What has to be true before a receipt goes up, and what we will not do regardless of how good the screenshot is.

Our core standard is one sentence: publish the strongest evidence necessary and the least personal information necessary.

Verification

A receipt does not publish because somebody uploaded a screenshot. Before publication an editor needs at least one of the following, and usually more than one:

The original public URL, inspected by an editor
A web archive capture or comparable archival evidence
A screen recording showing the public content and its account context
Multiple independent pieces of evidence, where the original has already been deleted

If a post is already gone and a single screenshot is all that exists, that is not enough. We would rather miss a receipt than publish one we cannot stand behind.

Every receipt records when it was observed and when it was last verified. Both dates are published.

Identifying people

We treat public accounts and private individuals differently.

Public officials, candidates, public-facing creators, verified public personalities and business accounts may be identified when the identity is relevant to the story and has been verified. Those accounts speak publicly in a public capacity.

For ordinary private individuals, publication defaults to minimising identity. Most of the time the post is the story and the name is not. Publishing a private individual's full identity requires an explicit editorial decision, and the system will not let a receipt publish otherwise.

We never publish home addresses, phone numbers, employer contact details, family information, or anything about children — regardless of whether it is technically discoverable.

Evidence handling

We keep an unaltered original of every piece of evidence internally, and publish only an approved derivative.

We never alter a statement in a way that changes its meaning. Cropping is allowed only to remove irrelevant interface or unrelated people while preserving context, and unrelated private information is redacted. Metadata is stripped from published images. Where the original is no longer reachable, we say so and label archival or reconstructed material clearly.

Commentary

Commentary is labelled and visually separated from reporting. We roast the behaviour, the logic or the contradiction — not somebody's entire character, and never on the basis of something we have not verified.

We do not manufacture outrage where the evidence is ambiguous. If a post is genuinely unclear, it does not become a receipt.

What we never publish

Calls to contact, report, confront or locate a subject
Calls to contact a subject's employer, or to review-bomb a business
Home addresses, phone numbers, family details, or information about children
Private messages, private group content, or leaked material
Rankings, scores or leaderboards of individuals

The action we want from a reader is to read the receipt, understand it, and share it — not to attack anyone.

Corrections

We correct material factual errors promptly, add a visible correction to the receipt, and keep an internal record of what changed. Where the underlying evidence is false, manipulated, or attributed to the wrong person, the receipt is removed and the removal notice stays in place.

A removed receipt keeps its number and its URL. We do not reuse numbers, and we do not renumber after publication.