Editorial
Editorial standards
What we require of a story before it publishes, and what you are entitled to expect from it afterwards.
Last updated July 25, 2026
Sourcing
We cite primary sources wherever one exists: the company announcement, the paper, the filing, the release notes, the recorded remarks. Where we rely on another publication’s reporting, we say so and link to it rather than restating it as our own.
Aggregators are how we find stories, not how we source them. A link that merely points at someone else’s reporting is not a citation, and we do not present it as one.
When a claim cannot be verified, we say that plainly in the piece rather than implying more confidence than we have. “We could not confirm this” is a legitimate thing for an article to report.
Use of AI
We cover AI and we use it. Being vague about that would be a strange way to run this publication, so here is precisely where it sits in our process.
We use AI to monitor feeds and surface candidate stories, to summarise and score what is worth attention, and to produce initial drafts from a story lead.
We do not publish anything a human editor has not read, checked, and taken responsibility for. No automated process can publish to this site. Facts, quotes, and figures in a draft are verified against sources before they run — a generated draft is treated as a first draft from a junior reporter, not as copy.
We do not use generated imagery to depict news events. Where an image appears it is a real screenshot, figure, photograph, or chart, and it is credited.
Independence
Coverage is not for sale. If we ever run sponsored content, advertising, or affiliate links, they will be labelled unmistakably and kept separate from editorial judgement.
Where a story touches something we have a stake in — a tool we use, a company we have a relationship with — we disclose it in the article itself, not in a policy page you would have to go looking for.
Accuracy and updates
Articles carry a visible publication date, and an updated date when they have been revised. Substantive changes are noted on the article rather than made silently.
When we get something wrong we correct it in the open. The corrections policy sets out how, and how to tell us.
Questions
Corrections, questions about these standards, and anything else are welcome at contact@informedtoken.com.