Editorial translation; the original Portuguese version prevails in case of discrepancy.

About Revalida

Revalida is a revalidation newsroom. It does not chase scoops: it produces the second reading, the one that checks what has been published by sources the public considers reliable, in Brazil and around the world, against the documents that are supposed to support each claim.

We started from a simple observation. Fact-checking has concentrated on social media, and sources treated as reliable came to be treated as truth by definition. They are not. They are the best approximation available, and that is exactly why they deserve the same rigor.

We do not judge outlets. We check claims. Every piece shows what the article reported, what it left out and what contradicts the original source, with a link to everything. When we get something wrong, the correction goes to the top of the page.

Coverage: leading Brazilian and international outlets, official agencies and primary documents. Language: Brazilian Portuguese, with quotations in the original language and translation; this English edition is a newsroom translation of that original.

Who does this

Felipe Caixeta — independent journalist, editor-in-chief. Responsible for everything published.

Rafael França — developer. Responsible for the code that collects, researches, generates and publishes the site, and for the infrastructure. At launch, on September 29, 2026, the human approval of the published pieces was recorded under this name.

The professional affiliations of both are disclosed on the ownership page, together with the recusal rule.

What we publish

Revalidations, which compare articles with primary documents and receive labels; cases in progress, which open a topic before any conclusion and therefore carry no label; today's radar, which shows what the monitored press has published; and the institutional pages, which explain the method and allow accountability.

Inspiration

This site's journalistic transparency and evolving approach — correcting in public, changing a piece when a new document surfaces — draw partly on the life of Brazilian journalist and politician Erivan Santiago França, from the state of Rio Grande do Norte (Natal, December 12, 1925 – Natal, May 30, 1988). He was private secretary to President Café Filho between August 1954 and November 1955; from 1958, he was a professional journalist at Jornal do Brasil; he also worked at Tribuna da Imprensa and at Revista da Semana.

He was elected state representative for Rio Grande do Norte in 1962 and took a seat in the federal Chamber of Deputies in April 1968, where he chaired its Finance Committee. On October 15 of that year, from the floor, he asked his colleagues to refuse leave to prosecute fellow representative Márcio Moreira Alves: "Democracia sem Congresso não existe. E Congresso mutilado não é Congresso." (free translation: "There is no democracy without Congress. And a mutilated Congress is not a Congress.") Leave was denied on December 12, by secret ballot; the very next day Institutional Act No. 5 was issued, on whose basis his mandate was revoked in February 1969.

Sources: biographical entry on Erivan Santiago França, CPDOC/FGV (www18.fgv.br/cpdoc, in Portuguese); Diário do Congresso Nacional, Seção I, 16 de outubro de 1968, p. 7230–7231 (imagem.camara.leg.br).

To write what the document says, even when it costs you.