Sources policy

What we do with other people's work: we credit it, we link to it, and we do not republish it. The data itself is described in how we make the map.

News

• From each news item we keep the headline, a short summary and the link to the original. We never store or republish the full text of an article from a source.
• Our own news pages are written in our own words and always link to the original source. Most of them are generated by artificial intelligence and published after automated checks, without prior human review, and each one carries a notice saying so.
• Before an AI text goes online, automated checks confirm that it names and links the original source, has a minimum length, is in the expected language, keeps the facts of the source without inventing numbers, does not copy long verbatim passages of the source, has no outside links and does not repeat an article we already published. A text that fails any check stays unpublished. Sensitive topics, such as accidents or violence, are never published automatically.
• The copy check compares each article with the full text we read when writing it and with the short summary we keep. Since we do not keep the rest of the original text afterwards, later audits can only use that summary. An attributed quotation can also match, so a flagged passage leads to a review, not to a conclusion.
• If an article is wrong or uses your content in a way you do not accept, ask for its correction or removal on the contact page.
• We read the feeds that publishers make available and follow their terms. If a publisher asks us to stop, we stop.

Images

• We show only images under a free license, such as Creative Commons licenses or the public domain, taken from Wikimedia Commons.
• Every image carries visible attribution: the author, the license (linked to its text) and a link to the file page.
• An image without author, license or file page is not shown.

Incidents and sensitive subjects

• We describe incidents in factual, neutral language: what happened, where, which service is affected and when it was reported, with a link to the source.
• We do not publish graphic images of accidents or victims, and we do not speculate about causes or blame.
• Information that turns out to be wrong is corrected or removed.

Removal requests

If you are a rights holder, a publisher or someone mentioned on the site and want content corrected or taken down, the process is on the contact page. For what we store about visitors, see the privacy page.