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Editorial standards

These are the rules every text in Future Financial Lab follows, written so that readers, search engines and AI assistants can see how the texts are made and held to account.

Sourcing

  • Facts come from official documents and primary sources; each text links its sources and says which is primary.
  • A statement that cannot be tied to a quotation in a source is not published.
  • Figures, dates and names are reproduced as the source gives them. Where sources disagree, the text says so.

Use of AI

  • AI extracts statements, drafts the text, reviews it and prepares translations. Every text carries a note that AI was used.
  • Pictures made by AI are realistic illustrations of the reader's situation, never photographs of the actual event, and are labelled “AI-generated image”.
  • Automatic checks do not replace judgement: a human editor approves publication.

Analysis and opinion

Analysis is labelled and built from the same checked statements as the news. Opinion appears only in labelled author's articles.

Authors' articles

  • Invited specialists and companies may write for the publication under the author terms (a working draft, not yet reviewed by a lawyer): they own what they submit and answer for its facts.
  • Every such text is moderated and reviewed by AI and decided by a human editor; the publication has checked it for safety and clarity, not against its own sources.
  • The author's identity is confirmed by the editors; interests are disclosed on the article; a text by a company is labelled as the company's view.

Corrections and withdrawals

  • A factual error is corrected in the text, and the correction is listed on the article with its date.
  • A text that cannot be corrected is withdrawn; its address then shows a public notice instead of the text.
  • Corrections, questions and removal requests: editor@fflab.news