[cdrini]

That's why the key is verifiability. The org doing this should have a fixed list of checks they do, and every violation will be linked. This will limit the types of checks it can do, eg "bias" is a hard check that might not be possible. _but_ something like "every statistic most be supported by direct links to data sources" is, and raised the quality level. Checks like "misleading headlines" would help curb things like clickbait as well.

[cheeseomlit]

I just don't think there's a clean systematic answer to the problem, its a trust issue. Even if links to data sources are required you can find a data source with statistics to support almost anything. Especially when it comes to non-rigorous survey statistics that can be gamed to death or interpreted in a million ways, and that type of junk data is the bread and butter of political hacks