Editorial policy

Coverage standard

The site focuses on politically relevant people, events, issues, organizations, parties, and public statements. It favors durable context and traceable records over high-volume breaking-news churn.

• Events should explain what changed, who matters, and how the story developed.
• People pages should connect public figures to offices, affiliations, issues, events, and sourced statements.
• Statement pages should preserve attributable wording and explain the source context around it.

Human review

Automated tools may help collect, clean, translate, or suggest material, but they do not publish sensitive political records on their own. Quote attribution, contextual summaries, score rationale, and significant corrections require human editorial review.

The operating rule is simple: AI may propose; humans publish.

Source expectations

Important factual claims should be tied to public sources, official records, direct statements, or captured source material. Public pages should link to original sources where useful and safe, while preserved source copies support later verification and corrections.

• Prefer primary sources when the claim depends on exact wording.
• Keep quote text, translated text, context, and analysis visibly distinct.
• Do not treat scraped or imported text as publication-ready without review.

Quote, context, and analysis

• Quote is the attributable statement or excerpt.
• Context explains surrounding facts, timing, and political circumstances.
• Analysis explains the editorial interpretation and any score rationale.
• Trust metadata shows practical signals such as source, publication, update, and review status.

Scoring interpretation

Scores are dimension-based editorial assessments of statements, not moral rankings of people. Person-level averages summarize published scored statements and should be read as evidence summaries, not as claims about personal worth.

• Truthfulness estimates how well the statement matches available evidence and context.
• Democratic norms evaluates alignment with pluralism, accountability, lawful process, and institutional restraint.
• Propaganda risk flags manipulative or strategically distorted framing.
• Confidence indicates how strong the available evidence base is.

Publication restraint

The site should avoid publishing unsourced accusations, misleading quote fragments, opaque score judgments, or claims that cannot be defended from the available record. When evidence is incomplete, public pages should say so rather than overstate certainty.