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Clara McKenzie

Fact Checker

Clara McKenzie

With LiveCasinoRank since March 2022

Clara McKenzie is the fact checker at LiveCasinoRank. She is from New Zealand and came to the job from investigative journalism, and she checks the claims on our live casino and live game pages against their sources: licences, payout and RTP figures, and what operators say about their own platforms.

Her focus is source verification and documenting how live casino platforms work in practice. Outside work she hikes, takes photographs and plays chess.

Fact-checkingLicence verificationPayout and RTP claimsSource tracing
Live casino reviews
542
Guides and pages
47
Category pages
11

Experience and education

Clara's background

Experience

  1. LiveCasinoRank
    • Fact Checker March 2022 – present
  2. Online Gaming Review Collective (Wellington)
    • Senior Live Casino Analyst June 2017 – February 2022
  3. Regional Investigative Press (Auckland)
    • Investigative Reporter, digital and gaming beat January 2013 – May 2017

Education

  1. Master of Arts (Investigative Journalism)
    • University of Auckland 2012 – 2013
  2. Bachelor of Arts (Journalism)
    • Massey University 2008 – 2011

Clara's career in figures

8+ years in the industry
100+ casino platforms evaluated
250+ articles published
20+ industry reports and research contributions

Figures from the author's profile. They cover a whole career across sites and markets, not only LiveCasinoRank.

How Clara works

What Clara checks before a page goes live

Clara traces each checkable claim back to where it comes from. A licence is checked in the regulator's public register, an RTP or payout figure against the studio's published game rules, and an operator's claim about its own platform against its terms and its licence conditions.

When a claim cannot be traced, it does not stay on the page. When a figure changes, the correction is recorded so the page shows what changed. Her years in investigative journalism shaped that habit: write down the source first, the conclusion second.

I trace every claim back to its source, so readers get answers they can check themselves about live dealers, payouts and how fair a platform is.
Clara McKenzie

What they check

  • Licence number and status in the regulator's public register
  • RTP and payout figures against the studio's published rules
  • Bonus terms: wagering, live game contribution, time limits
  • Operator claims against their own terms and conditions
  • Responsible gambling tools named in a review
  • Dates and sources on every changed figure

Published on LiveCasinoRank

Pages Clara has worked on

The live casino reviews, game pages and guides where Clara McKenzie is named as author or fact checker, grouped by type.

Live casino reviews 542

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Guides and pages 47

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Questions for Clara

What does a fact checker do at LiveCasinoRank?

I check the claims on our pages before and after they are published: licences, RTP and payout figures, bonus terms and what operators say about their platforms. The aim is that every figure a reader sees can be traced to a source.

What happens when a claim is disputed?

I go back to the original source, compare it with the operator's terms, the regulator's register or the studio's game rules, and ask the operator when something is unclear. Every correction is documented so the change can be followed.

Where do RTP figures on live game pages come from?

From the studio's own game rules and help pages. A live game can have different returns on different bets, so a page should say which bet a figure applies to. Lightning Roulette is an example: its straight-up bets return less than its other bets.

Which sources do you rely on most?

Regulators' public registers and filings, studios' published game rules, operators' terms and conditions, and test lab certificates where a studio or operator publishes them.

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