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Editorial Policy

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All posts on this site are written, reviewed, and published according to the following principles.

1. Sources

  • Primary sources first. Official company and institutional announcements, paper bodies, exchange and government disclosures are cited as the primary source.
  • Every claim with a URL and date. All figures, named entities, and dates appearing in the body are tagged with a source URL.
  • Items backed only by secondary outlets (portals, blogs, summary sites) are used as *supporting reference* only; we verify against the primary source.

2. Hallucination guard — separating fact from opinion

  • Fact summary (Part A): uses only figures, named entities, dates that appear in the source. No interpretation, evaluation, or forecast.
  • Points to watch (Part B): provides only *how to read, evaluation criteria, checklists* from the persona's expertise area. No new figures introduced.
  • Hedge phrases banned — "more information is needed", "not yet disclosed". If we don't know, we drop the sentence.
  • No arbitrary regional extension. We do not add region-specific claims (e.g. "approved in country X", "officially supports language X") that are not in the source.

3. 4-step analysis

Each post body follows this 4-step structure.

  1. Fact. What happened (compressed 5W1H)
  2. Context. What flow is this part of (timeline, market, ecosystem)
  3. Mechanism. Why it happened and how it works
  4. Blind spot. What is missing and who loses

4. Information-landscape labels

Each item carries labels measured *by code as an objective signal*, not by editorial judgment.

  • [Primary] — sourced from an official domain (company, institution, paper)
  • [Consensus] — covered by many outlets simultaneously (N outlets)
  • [Quiet signal] — few sources + primary source. A signal that was buried.
  • [Trend] — same entity appearing for N consecutive weeks

5. Persona accountability

Doru ends every post with a falsifiable single-line claim: "Because of X, Y will happen — verifiable by signal Z." It is an opinion that can be wrong but is still stated. Evasive sentences ("worth watching", "needs to be observed") are removed automatically.

6. AI use disclosure

Posts on this site are drafted by AI and reviewed by a human editor. We disclose AI use at the bottom of every post in line with applicable AI-transparency standards.

7. Corrections

For the correction procedure see the Corrections Policy.

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