Last updated: 12 May 2026

fact-check-manager: Maintenance tasks

Due to the nature of Fact Check Manager there are some tasks we need available to us for various forms of maintenance either for security or process reasons.

Revoke edition preview access for SMEs

Due to security requirements we need to manually reset the request's auth_bypass_id to invalidate preview links for any SMEs. We can do this by supplying a comma separated list of request IDs or source IDs to the associated rake task.

For example: fact_check:revoke_preview_link_by_request_ids["request_id1","request_id2"] or fact_check:fact_check:revoke_preview_links_by_source_ids["source_id1","source_id2"]

Note: You cannot mix source IDs and request IDs in the same rake task. Pick the one you need for your job!