Editorial standards & AI use

How we source, check and label what we publish.

Cited sourcesEvery factual paragraph carries a numbered citation.

Primary firstOfficial documents are preferred over secondary coverage.

Evidence labelledDocumented, reported, disputed or unverified.

Visible correctionsWhen we get something wrong, we say so.

Sourcing

Reports are written only from named, linked sources. Every factual paragraph carries a numbered citation that maps to the source list at the bottom of the article. Official and primary documents are preferred over secondary coverage; anonymous or single-source claims are labelled as such.

Evidence labels

documented	Supported by official records, primary documents or on-the-record officials.
reported	Reported by credible outlets; not independently confirmed by us.
disputed	Credible sources give conflicting accounts.
unverified	A claim or rumor without corroboration. Treat with caution.

How AI is used

AI-assisted reports are drafted and checked automatically. Automatic checks are not human editorial review. Articles may publish automatically after passing these checks; drafts that fail are held for an editor.

Much of our output is researched and drafted by AI. The pipeline: (1) feeds from official and press sources are collected hourly; (2) items are scored for relevance and clustered by story; (3) the source pages are read for context; (4) an AI model drafts an original report restricted to that source material; (5) a second AI pass checks each claim against the sources and blocks publication if anything is unsupported; (6) passing reports publish with an “AI-assisted” label. Drafts that fail checks are held for human review.

Where a report we cite publishes a photograph or document that shows the subject of our story — a sighting, an object, a released file — we may show it inside the article, after an automated check that it is relevant, with a caption and a credit linking to the publisher. We keep a copy of these images so they stay available; they remain the property of the publisher. If you own an image shown here and want it removed, contact us.

Header illustrations are AI-generated. Where the reports we cite carry photographs, a vision model describes in generic terms what they show, and the illustration may draw on those descriptions to stay faithful to the story; we never reproduce the photographs or anyone’s likeness.

AI can still make mistakes. We do not publish quotes, numbers or names that are not in the cited sources, and we correct errors visibly.

Independence

We do not accept payment for coverage, and we are not affiliated with any government agency or advocacy organization.