This page sets out exactly how question sets on Facts Reader are produced and what is rejected before publication. It is here so you can judge the material rather than take it on trust.
How pages are produced
Sets are compiled with the assistance of large language models and then filtered by automated editorial checks that run on every single item before it reaches the site. We say this plainly because the alternative — implying that thousands of individual trivia answers were each verified by a person — would not be true, and you deserve to know which parts of the process are mechanical.
What the checks cannot do is independently confirm every fact. That is the honest limit of this site, and it is why the rules below are written to exclude whole categories of risky material instead of trying to verify them one by one.
What gets rejected automatically
Anything that goes stale
An item is discarded if its truth depends on when you read it. That includes world records and record-holders, reigning or defending champions, anything described as the most popular, most watched, most followed, highest-grossing or best-selling, leading producers of a commodity, net worth and dollar or population figures, and any answer anchored to a year from 2020 onwards. These are the single largest source of quiet errors in trivia, because nobody ever goes back to re-check them.
Anything unsafe to read aloud
Children, parents and teachers use this site, so every set — including those written for adults — is filtered for sexual content and innuendo, alcohol, drugs and smoking, gambling, graphic violence, death as entertainment, remarks about appearance or weight, and political or sectarian material. Horror and Halloween sets are allowed the vocabulary their subject requires and nothing beyond it.
Repetition
Question sets are notorious for asking the same thing four ways. Every item is compared against the rest of its page twice: once on the wording and once on the content words alone, so that “which president made it a national holiday” and “which president declared it a national holiday” are recognised as one question. On trivia and riddle pages an answer may be used only once per page.
Filler
Stock phrasing is stripped from the written sections — no “look no further”, no “without further ado”, no “dive in”, no paragraph that merely describes the page you are already reading.
What we do not do
We do not invent author biographies or credentials. We do not claim expert review that has not happened. We do not publish affiliate or paid links inside question sets. We do not fabricate ratings or review counts.
Reporting an error
Send the page address and the question through the contact page, with the correct answer if you have it to hand. Factual corrections are applied directly to the set, and a question we cannot settle is removed rather than left standing.