Editorial standards

Sourcing

Koios reporting cites primary and named sources by link inside the article. Anonymous sourcing is not used. A claim that cannot be attributed to a named source is not published as fact; it is either dropped or labelled as analysis.

Evidence and analysis

Evidence is what a named source asserts. Analysis is Koios's reading of it. Headlines may not strengthen an allegation, estimate, interpretation, causation, scope, urgency, or certainty beyond what the article body supports; that rule is enforced by machine at draft time, not by taste after the fact.

Use of AI

Koios reporting is drafted with AI language models under the masthead persona Nik Koios and passes deterministic gates (attribution, numeric citation, quotation, duplication) and an independent assessment on a different model lineage before it can be published. Wire items are never generated: they are the named source's own headline and summary, recorded verbatim with a citation.

Corrections

A material error withdraws the exact published manuscript by digest, and the corrected bytes must pass every gate again before republication. The editorial audit records the source digest of every published article so an outside verifier can see exactly which bytes changed and when. See corrections.

Machine readers

Every article carries schema.org NewsArticle data and h-entry microformats. Every wire item's claims are published as JSON with witness and citation under /claims/, and the whole store is projected into RSS, Atom, JSON Feed, and a Google News sitemap.