Hype Check Nonpartisan by design
Hype Check Live checks claims, not people or parties. When a political number is worth checking, we check the number, and we pick from across the spectrum.
Most claim-scoring brands drifted into politics and lost half their audience. We built the opposite. Politics is a small, factual slice of a much wider read across business, tech, money, science, culture, and sports. The point is signal, not sides.
How each edition works
Same format every week, a fresh set of claims. Each item gives you the claim in plain terms, a two or three sentence check, the source, and a hype score from zero to one hundred. Low means mostly real, high means mostly hype. Five or six claims, one per domain, in about four minutes.
Why it holds up
Every number is real and citable; nothing is invented. We check claims, not people, so politics rides in only as a checkable number chosen from across the spectrum. The score follows a published, repeatable method. And we credit the underhyped as readily as we flag the overhyped, because honest scorekeeping cuts both ways.
Common questions
How do you stay nonpartisan?
We score specific factual claims with a number behind them, never a person or a party, and we run a symmetry test: would we write this the same way if the other side said it?
Do you cover politics at all?
Lightly, and only as a checkable number. It is never a standalone section.
What if I disagree with a score?
Reply and tell us. We publish our method and we correct in the open when we get something wrong.
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