What has to be true before we publish.
These are the standing rules The Fair Report applies to every story. They are enforced as blocking checks, not as aspirations: an article that fails any one of them is rejected rather than softened.
Who is accountable
The Fair Report is founded and edited by Jason Lazerus, and published by WeaveHub Technologies LLC. Editorial responsibility for everything on this site — including errors — rests with the editor. Questions, corrections, and complaints reach a person: see contact.
Sourcing
- Every story requires two or more independent sources, or a single primary source such as a government release, court filing, or official statistical publication.
- Every article carries a Sources section linking to the originals, so any claim can be checked against the document it came from.
- Direct quotes are attributed to the original speaker and limited to two sentences.
- Source links are checked at publication. Dead links are dropped, and an article that falls below its required source count is withdrawn rather than published with a broken citation.
Verification before publication
Each article clears five checks in order. All are blocking.
- Originality. The text is compared against every source it draws on. Any run of consecutive matching wording is a rejection. We do not republish other publications' work.
- Style. Length, structure, and banned constructions are enforced mechanically.
- Neutrality. Evaluative or persuasive language that is not attributed to a named source is a rejection.
- Traceability. Every sentence is checked back against the structured fact record. A sentence that cannot be traced to a cited source does not run.
- Link integrity. Every cited URL is re-checked before the article goes live.
What we do not do
- We do not publish opinion, editorials, endorsements, or predictions.
- We do not accept payment, sponsorship, or any other consideration in exchange for coverage, placement, or omission.
- We do not republish source text. Facts are extracted; the wording is always our own.
- We do not quietly alter published articles. Substantive changes are logged as corrections.
Fairness and representation
Coverage is selected on the news value of the underlying event, not on whom it favours. Where an account is contested, the article reports the disagreement and attributes each position to the party making it rather than adjudicating between them. Our source list spans governments, courts, intergovernmental bodies, scientific agencies, and independent outlets across regions, and it is reviewed for over-reliance on any single voice.
Corrections
Errors of fact are corrected in place, on the record, and disclosed on the article itself. Nothing is silently deleted. The full policy, and the means to report an error, are on the corrections page.
How reporting is produced
Our sourcing and production process is described on the about page.