Editorial policy

What we publish

Reporting sourced to primary documents and to people speaking on the record. Every lead carries attribution and a link to the primary source. Numbers come from data we hold or from a cited document, never from memory. Signal-derived numbers print with their base rate.

Kinds of article

Lanes. Wire · Markets · Prediction markets · On the record · Claim check · Explainer · Interview · Investigation · Digest Nine lanes, each with its own length and review rule. Wire briefs, market moves, prediction-market reads and digests are short and factual. On-the-record pieces quote a notable statement verbatim and say what is checkable. Claim checks, explainers and interview features are always human-reviewed. Investigations explain how something works from documents and data, and need the editor’s sign-off; they are never built on an allegation of wrongdoing.

Fairness

Named people and companies get their say next to any adverse fact. We report actions and disclosures, not imputed motives. We use neutral verbs. We do not manufacture balance, and we do not soften a documented fact that bears on the story. Charity is the default for anyone who gave us access, and that governs story selection as well as tone.

Quotes

Words inside quotation marks appear in the cited transcript or post. Speech-to-text errors are corrected to what the speaker said and the correction is logged. Non-English speech is quoted in the original with a rendering after it. We never fabricate requests for comment: if we did not ask, we do not say the subject did not answer.

Fairness to the people we cover

Routine reporting is reviewed by the editor. Adverse claims about a named person or company need the editor’s sign-off. We do not publish pieces built on allegations of wrongdoing, and we do not send automated requests for comment. We explain how things work, from documents, data and what the subjects themselves say. If we get something wrong, we correct it in the corrections log. Wallet addresses are public and may be named; a link between a pseudonym and a legal identity is published only when it appears in a primary record.

Corrections

Corrections are public, dated, and linked from the article. See the log.

Independence

No sponsored content is published at present. If that changes, sponsored articles will be labelled as such at the top of the page and the sponsor will have no editorial control. The editor discloses a material interest in a subject in the article itself.