Editorial Policy

These are the standards every AppStack Insider article must meet before publication. They apply equally to human and AI-assisted work — the process is described separately on How We Use AI.

Sourcing

• Every article is grounded in identifiable sources, listed with direct links in a Sources section.
• News coverage requires either an official (primary) announcement from the company involved, or at least two established, independent publications.
• We do not use content obtained by circumventing paywalls, and we do not cite sources we could not actually read.
• Press releases are treated as the company's own claims and attributed as such — not as independent verification.

Facts, numbers, and dates

• Every significant figure, date, and named claim must appear in the cited source material. Our pipeline verifies this programmatically before human review.
• When a widely reported figure cannot be traced to its origin, we say so explicitly rather than repeating it as fact.
• Open questions are stated plainly in a dedicated "What remains unclear" section instead of being smoothed over.

Reporting vs. analysis

Confirmed events are reported with attribution. Analysis and implications are framed as such and kept proportionate to the evidence — we do not turn a product update into a market-power thesis. Speculation presented as fact is grounds for rejecting a draft.

Independence

• Coverage decisions are made on relevance to our readers, never sold. Companies cannot pay to be covered, or to avoid coverage.
• Advertising is visually separated from editorial content and never influences it.
• If we ever publish affiliate or sponsored material, it will be labeled unmistakably.

Authorship

Articles are credited to the AppStack Insider Editorial Team. We do not use invented author personas, stock-photo "experts," or fabricated credentials. Structured data on each article identifies the publisher and the editorial team as the author.

Corrections

Errors are corrected visibly per our Corrections Policy. Substantive corrections update the article's "last updated" date and are noted in the text.