Sourcing policy

Facts are not owned by anyone; the words used to express them are. So we extract the fact and write it ourselves. We do not reproduce a source’s sentences, structure or framing.

Where the exact wording genuinely matters — a denial, a legal phrase, a precise formulation — we quote briefly, mark it as a quote, and attribute it. Quotes are kept short by design.

Every trend page lists its sources with working outbound links. We link to the original reporting, not to an aggregator that copied it. Where a fact originates with one outlet, that outlet is marked as the primary source.

We do not use “no-follow-everything” tactics to hoard link equity while taking others’ work. If reporting is worth summarising, it is worth sending readers to.

We do not republish photographs from other outlets. The site is built around data visualisation — curves, charts and timelines we generate ourselves — which sidesteps image licensing entirely.

Sources are scored continuously on whether their claims hold up. A domain that repeatedly produces thin or unverifiable pages is down-weighted automatically. Aggregators and syndication mirrors are penalised, because they add a hop without adding reporting.

Where sources conflict, we say they conflict rather than silently picking one.

If you believe we have taken too much of your work, or credited it wrongly, write to us via contact and we will correct or remove it. We would rather fix it than argue about it.