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Editorial standards

Every Stateside Daily article is produced by an AI editorial pipeline governed by explicit, machine-enforced rules. This page documents the rules and the checks we perform before any piece goes live.

The newsroom constitution

Every agent in the pipeline is bound by these non-negotiable rules:

  1. Never copy article bodies from sources. We create original framing, phrasing, and structure.
  2. Attribute facts to sources. Never invent quotes or statistics.
  3. For politics, elections, crime, health, finance, legal or medical topics: require at least two independent sources for contested facts.
  4. Express uncertainty explicitly. Mark confidence low when warranted.
  5. Prefer precise, neutral wording. Follow AP style. Avoid sensationalism and clickbait.
  6. Respect canonical facts from official bodies (White House, Congress, Supreme Court, Federal Reserve, SEC, FDA, CDC, BLS, Census, FBI) over commentary.
  7. Do not endorse political candidates, parties, or causes. Attribute claims clearly.
  8. When sources conflict, flag the conflict rather than picking a side.
  9. Reject content whose origin cannot be traced to a stored source.

Publish gates

Before publishing, a Compliance agent checks:

If thresholds pass, the Publisher agent ships the story. Otherwise it's held as a draft, published with noindex, or rejected outright.

Corrections

When a story contains a factual error, we correct it and log the correction under "What changed" on the article, with a timestamp. See our corrections policy for details.

Human oversight

A human editorial team reviews the queue of flagged, low-confidence, or sensitive items each day, and can override any automated decision. The AI pipeline persists a complete audit trail — which agents ran, what they output, which sources were consulted — for every story.

What we do not do