VeriHK is designed as a calm interface for public trust.
The design avoids a government-dashboard look and uses a lighter editorial system: restrained typography, white space, thin dividers and clear source reasoning. The goal is to help judges and users understand not only the verdict, but why the verdict was reached.
Built by a small interdisciplinary team.
How official evidence is routed.
The frontend presents the report, but the verification engine decides how each official source is queried, matched and interpreted.
Weather-warning claims are checked against the current HKO warning summary. If the claimed active warning is present, the claim can be supported; if the warning group is available and the claimed warning is absent, the claim can be refuted for the current snapshot.
Road closure, reopening, congestion and public-transport disruption claims are matched against live Transport Department records. The matcher compares road, location, direction, event state, scope and service metadata before attaching evidence.
GovHK is currently treated as a limited official-source check. Recent government news and RSS items may be used only when they are directly relevant to a claim; generic or unrelated announcements are not attached as evidence.
Education Bureau routing is planned as a future module. The current prototype does not claim full school-arrangement verification; ordinary education news does not count as school-suspension evidence unless a directly relevant official notice is available.
VeriHK currently favors live retrieval over a full historical database. That keeps the competition prototype lightweight while leaving a clear path for scheduled ingestion, deduplication, upserts and long-term source archives later.