Editorial standards

Substantial, constructive and proportionate

We prefer significant, sourced advances in science, restoration, communities, development and culture. A hopeful framing must not hide uncertainty, inflate preliminary findings or disguise distressing content.

Automated screening rejects stories with excluded distressing themes and requires positivity of at least 85/100 and significance of at least 60/100. These are internal editorial filters, not independent quality ratings or scientific evidence.

AI assistance and editorial responsibility

Story summaries are written with AI assistance from the original source's title and excerpt, in our own words. AI also helps select constructive stories and draft context. It may make mistakes, so we credit and link to the original reporting and encourage readers to check it.

Candidates are screened for constructive, sufficiently supported news, then a separate automated check compares the proposed copy with the supplied source excerpt. Unsupported facts, names, figures or quotations, sensitive private-person reporting, allegations and medical advice are grounds for rejection. Automated excerpt checks are not a human review of the full article and do not prove every underlying claim.

The Daily Lift holds editorial responsibility for what it publishes. Human editors can approve or hide stories, withdraw images and handle corrections in the editorial studio. Approval is separate from recording a check of the original source; we do not claim every automatically gathered story has been approved or source-checked by a human.

Additional context must be grounded in supplied facts. An undocumented next step is an open question, not a prediction. New copy needs fresh editorial review. Older briefs are not retroactively certified by newer safeguards.

AI use is disclosed here, in the Terms of Use and through the footer, not as a label on each story. This is a transparency policy, not certification of EU AI Act compliance or reliance on an unverified human-review exemption. An Irish solicitor must confirm applicable duties.

Accuracy and health safeguards

New candidates undergo fail-closed source-grounding checks. AI must not introduce facts, names, figures or quotations absent from the supplied source excerpt. We withhold material about identifiable private individuals in sensitive situations, allegations against people or companies, defamatory or unverified claims, and medical claims presented as advice. Model scores and automated checks are not guarantees of truth.

Health and science stories are news, not medical advice. Do not change treatment or delay professional care because of a brief. Report a problem from any story so the editorial administrator can investigate and hide material quickly.

Independence and corrections

Readers may support the service voluntarily. Contributions do not buy coverage or favourable ratings. We do not run advertising, sell personal data, or charge for access to daily news.

Report errors or conflicts of interest to info@rithimcollective.com. Correction requests are reviewed rather than silently disguised as fresh publication.