These are the rules every article on Tech World News is written to.
Sources
- We report from primary sources wherever they exist: the company’s own announcement, the paper, the filing, the official statement.
- Every factual claim that is not common knowledge links to where it came from. We link to the original source, not to another outlet’s write-up of it, whenever the original is public.
- When sources disagree, we say so, or we use the primary source’s figure.
- We do not publish rumours as fact. Reports that have not been confirmed are described as reports and attributed to whoever made them.
How AI is used
AI writing tools draft our articles from the sources above. We use them because they let a small team cover more stories, and we set rules for them because they make particular kinds of mistakes:
- They may only use facts found in the sources they were given. They may not invent quotes, figures, people or test results.
- Automated checks run on every draft before publication: links must point to pages that were among the sources; link text that names a company, event or person must lead to a page about it; words in quotation marks must appear in the sources, or the quotation marks are removed.
- AI tools do not “test” products. An article will never claim hands-on experience that nobody had.
- Featured images on news articles are AI-generated illustrations. We do not generate pictures that pretend to show a real event, a real person or a real product photo.
Human review
Our editor, Shahid Anwer, reads and checks selected articles before they are published, and those articles carry a “Reviewed by” line. Articles without that line were published after the automated checks above. Every article, reviewed or not, is covered by our Corrections Policy.
Independence
- Advertisers, sponsors and affiliate partners do not see articles before publication and have no say in what we cover or how.
- Sponsored content, if we ever publish it, is labelled as sponsored at the top of the article.
- Articles with affiliate links say so before the first link.
Analysis and opinion
Explaining why something happened is part of reporting, but interpretation is written as interpretation (“the timing suggests…”), never stated as fact. We do not attribute motives or private decisions to named people unless a source has reported them.
Updates
When a story develops, we update the article and change its “last updated” date. Significant changes are noted at the end of the article.
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