Koios.News publishes through explicit gates: assigned, reported, fact-checked, copy-edited, standards-cleared, and published. The public audit currently covers 50 public articles, with 50 publishable reports.
Machine-readable evidence is available at /newswire-audit.json; this page explains the policy in human terms. Citation-domain evidence is at /bibliography, intake configuration is at /sources, corrections are at /corrections, and privacy terms are at /privacy.
| gate | cleared | contested | rejected |
|---|---|---|---|
| assigned | 50 | 0 | 0 |
| copy-edited | 50 | 0 | 0 |
| fact-checked | 50 | 0 | 0 |
| published | 50 | 0 | 0 |
| reported | 50 | 0 | 0 |
| standards-cleared | 50 | 0 | 0 |
Koios separates intake sources from publication references. Feeds and wires provide source material for research; published articles cite the smaller CSL references set that actually supports the story.
Published manuscripts must use canonical CSL-shaped references, body citations or links where claims depend on outside material, and no article-level sources field.
A publishable Koios article needs a substantial body, a summary, an SEO term in the first paragraph and a level-two heading, short H2 section labels separated from body prose, tags, categories, and a collapse-aware framing that does not turn imagination into prophecy.
Corrections, clarifications, material updates, and retractions are article metadata. They render on article pages, fold into the public correction register, and must declare or inherit propagation surfaces.
Koios defaults to CC BY 4.0 with explicit syndication rights for indexing, snippets, large image previews, feeds, Google Search/News/Discover surfaces, and attributed downstream distribution.
Koios measures publication performance with first-party page path, referrer host, and day only. It records no IP addresses, user agents, cookies, browser fingerprints, or reader identifiers.