Source Selection
NewsIQ indexes content only from publishers that meet our quality threshold:
- ✓ Established editorial teams with named mastheads
- ✓ Transparent ownership and funding disclosure
- ✓ Published correction and editorial policies
- ✓ Verifiable journalistic track record
- ✗ Satire, opinion-only, or hyperpartisan outlets are excluded
- ✗ Sites without editorial accountability structures
Headline Generation
All headlines shown on NewsIQ are AI-generated. Our model is instructed to:
- → Use factual, descriptive language only
- → Remove evaluative adjectives ("shocking", "explosive", "landmark")
- → Remove partisan framing from political stories
- → Reflect the consensus of source reporting, not one outlet's angle
- → Include key entities (who, what, where) in ≤12 words
Summary Generation
Summaries are grounded entirely in source article content. Our AI does not speculate, interpolate, or editorialize. Every claim in a summary can be traced to a linked source article. We surface three depths:
Corrections Policy
Summaries are regenerated automatically when new coverage of a story arrives, so they can change over time. If you spot a factual error in a NewsIQ summary, email hello.newsiq@gmail.com and we will fix it.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does NewsIQ ensure headline neutrality?
NewsIQ uses general-purpose large language models, instructed to rewrite headlines without evaluative language, emotional framing or partisan terms. Generated text is checked against the source articles before a story is published.
How does NewsIQ select which news sources to index?
The feeds NewsIQ reads directly come from established news organisations with editorial teams and correction policies. To show how a story is covered elsewhere, NewsIQ also finds articles through news search, which can include a wider range of publishers.
What happens when sources contradict each other?
When the Difference Engine detects factual contradictions between sources, we flag them explicitly in the story view. We do not adjudicate truth ourselves — we surface the contradiction and link to the primary sources so readers can evaluate evidence directly.
How does NewsIQ handle corrections?
Story summaries are regenerated automatically as new coverage of a story arrives, so they can change over time. If you find an error in a NewsIQ summary, email hello.newsiq@gmail.com and we will correct it.