Editorial & Sources Policy

Updated 23 October 2026

Selection and attribution

Stories come from configured publisher feeds with reviewed reuse conditions. An accessible RSS feed alone is not permission for public display, permanent storage, commercial reuse, images or AI processing. Some sources permit excerpts; others are limited here to unchanged headlines and links. Images and full article bodies are not imported by the production feed process.

Each story credits its source and links to original reporting. Author and licence credits are shown where available or required. “Source excerpt” identifies publisher wording presented as plain text; “Headline and link only” means no article summary is provided. An applicable licence link and adaptation/formatting notice accompany reused text. Source links do not imply publisher partnership or endorsement.

At this audit the enabled publishers were NASA, the Federal Reserve Board, Global Voices, The Register, Minnesota Star Tribune, LWN.net, Futurity, SciDev.Net, Scientific American, Techdirt, Mongabay, The Journalist’s Resource, It’s FOSS and Agência Brasil. Several have multiple topic feeds. Government/public-service sources and research publications are not described as independent daily newsrooms.

Dates, categories and formats

Latest uses the original publication date supplied by the source, rather than the time we imported a story. Known dates are not advanced simply because a feed is refreshed. If the date is unknown, it is shown as undated. Source metadata can be wrong; demonstrated corrections are recorded, and a known calendar date does not justify inventing a time.

Categories use publisher sections/tags and conservative editorial rules. Exact corrections can use the headline and permitted excerpt. Research about sport, politics or economics is not automatically reporting on a current sporting, political or business event. We do not assign unrelated stories to fill empty categories. Opinion, analysis, features and institutional announcements are labelled when supported; an absent label does not establish independently verified news.

AI assistance and review

Automatic AI processing is disabled and AI request/token budgets are zero. Earlier limited AI-assisted work produced summaries that were subsequently editorially reviewed; six such reviewed summaries were visible in the 23 October 2026 audit. They retain their labels and adapted-wording credits. Review is against the supplied source material, not an independent investigation or a claim of professional qualifications.

New feed ingestion does not automatically generate AI summaries or scores. AI-assisted text can omit context or contain errors. Check the original source.

Scoring and publisher coverage

The significance rubric estimates supported impact, not truth, credibility or popularity. No numeric significance scores or measured publisher-coverage counts were present at the audit. “Not scored” means no assessment is published, not that one is scheduled. “Score unavailable” identifies insufficient evidence or permissions. Headline-only stories have no score badge.

Coverage counts, when explicitly measured, count distinct credited publishers, not feeds, universities or article links. We do not infer that two articles describe the same event merely to claim coverage. If a requested ranking has no measurements, the feed explains that it is showing Latest instead. Read How scoring works for the rubric.

Corrections and independence

Confirmed category/format corrections are recorded and can be retained across feed refreshes. Reviewed summaries use source-input checks so an old review is not silently applied to changed source text. Publisher wording can update on refresh while the known original publication date is retained.

Email azeddine@dalil.dev for corrections or rights concerns. Identify the story, the disputed detail and supporting evidence; rights holders should identify the material and relevant rights. See Contact for request guidance. This service does not replace the publisher’s own corrections process.

Coverage gaps

Several categories have thin geographic or publisher coverage. Sports is heavily regional; Technology remains concentrated in a few outlets; research features and institutional material do not replace regular international reporting. Source failures and polling intervals can delay updates. We do not hide or reorder newer stories to manufacture publisher balance.