Methodology
This site’s only asset is being right. These are the rules it operates under, published so that readers can hold it to them. A departure from any rule on this page is a correctable error; the mechanism is at corrections.
The editorial rule
The site never asserts a contested classification as settled fact. It states the criteria, applies them transparently, names the scholars on each side, and lets the reader conclude. This holds for every case, including those where the evidence looks one-sided, and including cases where the answer is politically inconvenient in either direction.
Claims
Every factual claim carries a source, primary or near-primary preferred, never an opinion column citing another opinion column. Claims are typed and visibly marked throughout: fact for the established and uncontested, inference for scholarly inference from evidence, contested for live scholarly dispute, which always names scholars on both sides, and speculation, used sparingly and always labeled. A contested classification presented without both sides fails this site’s build process; the constraint is mechanical, not aspirational.
Citations
Citations are never invented. A claim that cannot be verified at its source is marked for verification and either resolved or removed; it is not approximated. The full bibliography, with identifiers and access dates for everything cited, is at sources. Wikipedia is used to find primary sources, never cited as one.
Language
No inevitability language: democratic backsliding reverses in most modern cases, and the site’s own cited data says so, so rhetoric implying a one-way slide would be a factual error here, not a style choice. No generic Hitler analogy: comparisons, where made, are specific and structural, naming the mechanism compared. No rhetorical escalation as the material darkens; the reader is an intelligent adult who has not decided yet, and is addressed as one.
Steelmanning
Any position this site rejects is stated first in its strongest form, in the terms its actual defenders use. This applies symmetrically, to the claims examined on the left-fascism page and to the scholars who reject classifications this site’s other sources accept.
Consistency
The same criteria are applied to every case. Regimes commonly called fascist that specialists classify otherwise are presented accurately, and “not fascist” is never framed as a moral defense. The site’s treatment of Tier C is the standing demonstration.
Dates and decay
Every page carries a visible last-verified date. Time-sensitive content, principally the contemporary section and the United States evidence page, decays fastest and is re-verified on a scheduled cadence, with dates updated only for content actually re-checked.
Imagery
Fascist propaganda imagery appears only in explicit historical and educational context, never decoratively, and never in a form that could be cropped and reused as standalone content. The site’s current default is no imagery.
Corrections
Errors are corrected visibly, not silently: see the corrections log. A site that publishes its standards is easier to hold accountable, which is the point of this page.
Colophon
This site’s palette is black, red, and gold: the colors of the German federal flagclaim type: fact and of the Weimar Republic before it. In March 1933 the Nazi government replaced the republic’s constitutionally mandated black-red-gold with the imperial black, white, and red, flown beside the swastika flag.claim type: fact Because Nazi flags are now illegal to display in Germany, the imperial combination is the one the far right flies today,claim type: fact and it is the combination this site’s palette deliberately avoids.