Media, Internet & Employment History Research

Check Fund Manager Investigators conduct thorough, layered research where multiple investigators use AI-enhanced searching tools to identify adverse information that could prompt investors to reconsider their investment. Controversial findings are immediately flagged and summarized, allowing for instant identification of a potential issue.

• Our Employment History research looks for references not only to employment but to directorships, investments and other affiliations to include and go beyond what is provided in the subject's biography.
• Association strength is indicated by both the colored descriptor links to the finding and the number and quality of the references found.

Below is a comprehensive grid of the types of media articles that our researchers look for. Each are categorized by importance to our clients (Red being detrimental information, Yellow being newsworthy, but not necessarily negative, information, and Green comprising general interest or personal information).

Evaluation of Media Items

Which items will you summarize within your report?

Red items are always summarized.

Yellow and Green items that can corroborate a subject's company affiliation are included as a color coded link in the Employment History section.

Green items of a personal nature are neither included nor summarized.

Media Research vs. Internet

Media articles are generally more structured than Internet pages. Media research is documented by date, time, and publication name. Professional practices for most publications dictate fact-checking standards. Internet publications have no such documentation or quality controls. Search capabilities for proximity of terms, phrases, and phrase exclusions that are common with media searches are not as advanced with Internet searches. Moreover, entering a search phrase in an Internet search engine one day may return a different set of results when entered the next day or through a different search engine. Relatively speaking, more adverse information is found from litigation research we perform than Internet or media research.

Our experience of conducting and evaluating thousands of reports is that we rarely find a substantiated negative news story on an Internet query that we had not already found with our published media research. In other words, the published news sources that we subscribe to are superior to what a general Internet search query could produce.

How do you qualify the association links in your Employment History research?

Employment verifications naming the subject in corporate filings, regulatory records or registrations, current and former company websites and SEC filings have green links.

Employment confirmations such as those taken from news articles, presentations, podcasts or social networking profiles are blue colored links.

Controversial media is highlighted red.

Social Media Research Optional Add-On

Check Fund Manager employs Artificial Intelligence to parse through potentially thousands of entries originated by the subject under investigation across these seven most popular social media platforms X,Reddit,TikTok,Facebook,Instagram,Pinterest& LinkedIn. They are researched and analyzed to produce a word cloud on your subject. It provides insight into the topics your subject refers to most often in their posts. The larger the word, the higher the frequency. The color of the word indicates whether they are speaking positively (green) or negatively (red) about the topic.

We next produce a graph of the number of posts and followers. It shows the aggregate of all followers, followings, and post count across all social media platforms that expose these metrics.

The following page in the report contain a list of flagged posts for your subject. The posts are listed in chronological order based on most recent to oldest. There will be a Each post includes a portion of the text and also the image associated with the post. A flagged post means that the post content triggered one or more of the flagged behavioral attributes.