How we fact-check

Every answer on Pixel Belle is checked against trusted sources before it’s published, and every page shows the date it was last checked.

Where our information comes from

1. Official sources first: the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC).
2. The companies themselves: help centers from Apple, Google, Meta (Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp), TikTok, Snapchat and others, for exactly where settings are and how reporting works.
3. Established safety nonprofits and reputable research, when they add something the official sources don’t.

We link the sources at the bottom of every page, so you can check them yourself.

How a page gets made

1. We pick a question people are actually asking, often from the Ask a Question form.
2. We write the answer in plain words, starting with what to do.
3. We check every step and setting against the sources, and test app steps on a real phone when we can.
4. We publish it with the sources and the date we checked it.

Keeping pages current

Scams and app settings change fast. We review pages at least twice a year, and sooner when an app changes its settings or a new scam starts going around.

About AI

We may use AI tools to help draft and organize pages. A person checks every answer against its sources before it’s published. Nothing goes up just because an AI said so.

Our independence

Pixel Belle has no ads, no sponsors and no affiliate links. No company pays to be mentioned or recommended.

Found a mistake?

Please tell us through the Ask a Question page. We’ll check it, fix the page and update its “last checked” date.