Guides · 2026-07-07 · updated 2026-07-15

How our confidence labels work

Leonida Daily labels every location and claim with a confidence level. Here's exactly what each label means and how something moves up the scale.

Confidence note. This is our methodology page — the standard everything else is held to. It defines the labels rather than applying them.

Everything on Leonida Daily carries a confidence label. It’s not decoration — it’s the core of how we can be both fast and trustworthy. A label tells you, at a glance, how sure we are and why. Here’s the full scale.

The labels

How something moves up the scale

New information enters at low confidence by default. It’s then deduplicated against what we already track, checked for a real source, verified where possible, labelled, and only then published. Nothing auto-promotes to “Confirmed” — a human-reviewed evidence step stands between a rumour and that top label. When evidence arrives, an item moves up; when it’s contradicted, it moves down to Debunked and stays visible.

Why we do it this way

Most GTA coverage optimises for confident headlines. That’s how a leak becomes “confirmed” in three retweets. Our bet is the opposite: that a clearly-labelled “Rumoured” you can trust is worth more than a “Confirmed” you can’t. The labels are the product — on the tracker for claims, and on the map for locations.

If we ever get something wrong, the label moves and the change is logged. Being correctable in public is the point, not an embarrassment.


By Alex Biscayne. See our editorial standards.