Editorial Standards

Sourcing tiers

Every source in our pipeline carries an explicit trust class, and that class follows the story into print:

• Wire services and established international outlets — the baseline news feed.
• Official government sources (ministries, heads of state, institutions) — labelled "Official" and treated as statements of a party, not neutral fact.
• Local and partisan media — labelled as unverified reports and never published without editorial review.

We do not republish other outlets

Apolitics publishes original work only. We monitor a wide set of wire services, official government channels and regional outlets, but that material is never republished here: it is internal research a journalist reads, cross-checks and cites — with attribution and a link to the original — while writing something new.

This is enforced in the software, not just in policy: ingested material is stored under a status the publishing pipeline refuses to accept, so no editor, automation or bug can push a third party’s article onto this site.

AI disclosure

Our editors use a locally hosted language model to draft analyses grounded in our own verified data (macro indicators, trade flows, sanctions counts, sourced statements). Drafts are always reviewed, edited, and approved by a human before publication. The model is instructed to preserve facts, attribute claims, and write in a neutral register — and the editor is accountable for the result.

Corrections

When we get something wrong, we fix the story and say so. Material corrections are noted in the article. Report an error via the contact page.