Editorial Policy & Corrections

A narrow class of routine, well-sourced items publishes automatically inside the same ten-minute cycle in which it is collected. Every automatic decision is logged with the exact criteria it met, is labelled in our editorial system, and can be unpublished, corrected or retracted by an editor at any time. Automatic publication never confers VERIFIED status — that still requires official evidence or genuinely independent corroboration reviewed by a person. WIRE items publish automatically only when all of the following are true: · at least 2 genuinely independent sources · no conflict detected between those sources · confidence band MODERATE or HIGH · all fighters and events resolved with no outstanding ambiguity · the subject is outside our sensitive-judgment list BUZZING items are single-source by design, so they are gated on source quality instead of count: · the originating account is a Tier 1 primary source · no conflict detected · the item is not one monitored account disputing another — adjudicating a disagreement between sources always stays with an editor · the subject is outside our sensitive-judgment list The sensitive-judgment list — always human-reviewed, regardless of source count: allegations and accusations against a named person, disputes, injury and medical claims, legal, criminal, commission and sanctioning rulings, doping and failed-test claims, investigations, and anything involving a minor. Volume safeguard: if more than 10 items qualify in a single ten-minute cycle, nothing publishes automatically. A burst that size is more likely a pipeline anomaly than ten genuine independent stories, so the whole batch is held for an editor. This rule applies only to items collected after it took effect. Nothing already in the editorial queue was retroactively published.