ExamineTheRecord publishes contextual analyses that place reported claims alongside primary sources, timelines, and prior reporting — so readers can weigh proportion, sequence, and omission for themselves. We are interested in what the documents say, what the sequence shows, and what is left out.
In May 2026, two outlets ran near-identical retellings of Sarah Edmondson's NXIVM branding story. Neither mentioned that the branding was never charged, that the NY State Police called the conduct "consensual" in 2017, or that Edmondson did not testify at the criminal trial.
A close reading of a recent NewsNation story that uses Jessica Joan ("Jane Doe 2" in US v. Raniere) to interpret Sarah Kellen — measured against the federal trial record.
ExamineTheRecord is a small editorial project devoted to a single, slow practice: reading reported claims against the documents they rest on, and publishing the comparison in a form that other readers can verify or rebut. We do not seek to persuade. We seek to organize. Every analysis links to its primary sources; every page is dated; every revision is logged.