About Sachilo
Sachilo is an evidence-first fact-checking platform focused on Nepali public-interest journalism. We retrieve, weigh, and quote sources so readers can defend a verdict for themselves, not because an algorithm says so.
What this is
You paste a news article or blog URL. Our system reads the article, isolates the factual statements it makes, and searches Nepali primary sources, established Nepali newsrooms, and international agencies for evidence that supports or contradicts each one.
We do not generate opinion. We do not summarize commentary. We have no chat interface. Each verdict is a structured report you can read, audit, or dispute. Every claim ships with its evidence.
How verdicts are generated
A five-stage pipeline runs for every submitted URL:
How sources are ranked
Every source we retrieve falls into one of four tiers. The tier influences how much weight a piece of evidence carries when we aggregate verdicts.
| Tier | Description | Examples | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Primary | Official government, regulator, court, election, central bank, treaty body, or primary document sources. Domains ending in .gov, .gov.[country code], .go.[country code], or .int are treated as primary unless evidence shows otherwise. | gov.np, ec.gov.np, mohp.gov.np, gov.uk, usa.gov, who.int, gov.au, canada.ca, govt.nz, gov.sg, go.jp, gov.kr, gov.cn, gov.in, india.gov.in, europa.eu, un.org | 1.0 |
| Established | Established newsrooms and national daily newspaper portals with public editorial accountability, including major global wires and broadcasters used for cross-border verification. | bbc.com, bbc.co.uk, reuters.com, apnews.com, afp.com, kathmandupost.com, gorkhapatraonline.com, risingnepaldaily.com, annapurnapost.com, nayapatrikadaily.com, theguardian.com, nytimes.com, washingtonpost.com, ft.com, thehimalayantimes.com, kantipurdaily.com, ekantipur.com, onlinekhabar.com, setopati.com | 0.7 |
| Other | Smaller accountable news sites, specialist portals, and identifiable local outlets. Useful for leads and context, but weighted below primary and established sources. | ratopati.com, lokaantar.com, nepallivetoday.com, nagariknews.com, bizmandu.com, himalkhabar.com, deshsanchar.com, baahrakhari.com, ujyaaloonline.com, shilapatra.com | 0.4 |
| Unverified | Anonymous blogs, content farms, copied articles, social-only pages, or domains without clear ownership and editorial accountability. | unsourced posts, unknown-news.np, unverified social pages | 0.1 |
What we will not say
Words carry weight in journalism. We avoid loaded language that asserts intent we cannot prove. The following terms never appear in our verdicts:
Instead, every verdict uses exactly one of six labels:
How corrections work
Every verdict has a "Request correction" button. Corrections are reviewed by a human editor. When a verdict is changed or retracted, the original is preserved with a strike-through and a dated correction note.
Who built this
Team page coming soon. The project is built by an independent group of journalists, engineers and researchers based in Kathmandu.
Get in touch
hello@sachilo.com for partnerships or to report an issue with a published verdict.