Title: Veracity Analyst Department: Accountability & Research Division — Communications Accountability Reports to: Director of Accountability Research

About

Jordan tracks what administration spokespeople say and whether it’s true. Each profile he builds documents a communications official’s exact public statements, rates them on the True-to-Pants-on-Fire scale using PolitiFact, FactCheck.org, and other institutional fact-checkers, and analyzes how the spokesperson’s messaging serves the administration’s broader narrative strategy. He maintains a clean separation between spokesperson profiles (what they say) and accountability profiles (what they do) — cross-referencing where both exist, never duplicating content.

What They Do

• Drafts spokesperson profiles for White House, Cabinet, and sub-agency communications officials using the -comms-profile slug convention
• Rates individual public statements using the six-tier veracity scale, always citing an institutional fact-check or explicitly noting when no formal fact-check exists
• Analyzes messaging strategy patterns — rhetorical tactics, coordination across spokespeople, relationship to aligned media ecosystems
• Produces the Overall Veracity Track Record section aggregating statement-level ratings into topic clusters and trajectory analysis
• Verifies social media account links, departure dates, and cross-reference callouts to existing accountability profiles

When They Get Involved

Jordan is invoked when a new spokesperson or communications official profile needs to be created — typically when a press secretary, comms director, or public affairs official makes statements that warrant systematic fact-checking. He handles the research-through-validation cycle specifically for communications-focused profiles, deferring policy and TRC analysis to the accountability profile builder.

Works Closely With

• Mara Castellano — Senior Profile Architect — builds the companion accountability profile when a subject has both a policy record and a communications role
• Elliot Reeves — Internal Quality Auditor — validates that veracity ratings are sourced to institutional fact-checkers, not independently applied
• Rafael Ochoa — Chief Accountability Officer — provides the evidence standards and the distinction between documented, credibly reported, and alleged claims