How should an answer page link each claim to evidence?
Place the evidence link beside the precise claim it supports, with the source date and product scope where they matter. Wrong About You left 880 of 2,922 statements unverifiable in answers captured on 22 and 23 September 2026, checked against vendor pages read on 8 October. A page link alone does not establish that its contents settle the statement.
What we measured
Measured. The Wrong About You study reviewed statements about seventy vendors, the five most named in each of fourteen September categories. Its labels compare an engine's stated claim with the vendor's published facts. Unverifiable means that those checked pages did not settle the claim; it is separate from a contradiction or a documented stale fact.
The 2,922 base counts statements as made by engines, not unique product facts or buyers. The 880 unresolved statements therefore cannot be described as 880 falsehoods. Team review of flagged statements remains in progress. The collection did not test different styles of evidence links or measure which style changed future answers.
Reasoned. For a publisher, the useful task is to make the route from your sentence to its support inspectable. This is different from a reader checking whether a generated answer's citation supports it.
Our answer-study method, v1.1.
What this means for you
Start by identifying the smallest factual claim that needs support. A sentence combining price, edition and integration availability may require more than one source. Split it when one link cannot establish all three facts. Keep an inference visibly separate from the source's own reported statement.
Choose the destination that establishes the fact, rather than a company home page that merely identifies the supplier. Use a descriptive link label. For a changing price or plan, retain the source-read date and relevant conditions. For a historical study, keep its capture date, sample and event definition near the number.
Check the passage after adding the link. Does it refer to the same product, edition, location and period as your sentence? If it supports only a narrower claim, revise your sentence to that scope. If the page is unavailable or inconclusive, retain an unknown state rather than using the presence of a link to imply certainty.
Keep an internal claim record with the sentence, destination and review date. When a source changes, this makes the affected public wording easier to find. Review the rendered page too: a footnote or link dropped during publication removes the evidence path even when the draft was correct.
- For a writer: link the source that establishes the sentence you actually wrote.
- For a reviewer: test the scope of the supporting passage, not just whether the URL opens.
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Next step
Use the Free 10-question check (one engine). No email is needed; runs are limited per network and per day, and by the site's daily allowance. Compare one answer claim with the passage behind its link.
When that check establishes a specific page-level mistake, Fix one answer, $490 can connect the correction to its evidence.
Prepared by the Broadcastwell team.
Page owner: Rohan Iyer, AI Engineer. Corrections: hello@broadcastwell.com