Owen Holdaway has spent a decade in places where that is literally true. From the rubble of Mosul to the frontlines of eastern Ukraine, he has built his career on one discipline: finding out what is actually true, and making it transmissible.

That same discipline — source verification, editorial chain-of-custody, bias detection under pressure — is precisely what the AI industry is failing to apply to its most critical input: training data.

Factual Inquirer exists at the intersection of two decades of frontline journalism, hands-on AI data curation, and editorial strategy for the information age. It is a rare combination — and increasingly, a necessary one.