Editorial Standards

How Diaspora Updates produces, checks, and corrects the stories you read here.

Verification

Every factual claim in a Diaspora Updates story must be supported by at least two independent, reputable sources before it's stated as fact. Single-sourced claims are attributed explicitly (“according to X”) and flagged in the writing.

Sensitive claims — a specific person's death, criminal accusations, dollar amounts attributed to an entity, direct quotes — require two independent reputable sources. If only one source exists, the article does not run.

Sourcing

We prefer primary sources: official statements, court documents, statistics agencies. Where social media is the origin of a story (a viral post, a creator's announcement, an eyewitness clip), we cite the post directly and corroborate the underlying claim with at least one non-social source.

AI tooling

Diaspora Updates uses Anthropic's Claude family of models to research and draft stories across our beats, with a separate verification pass that re-checks each draft's factual claims before it can publish. Articles that fail verification stay unpublished pending human review. We disclose this to be transparent — it does not change our verification standards.

Images

Hero images are sourced from public-domain repositories (Wikimedia Commons, CC0/PDM contributions to Openverse, US government archives, and similar). We do not re-host copyrighted press-agency photos.

Sensitivity

Deaths, deportations, missing persons, and harambees (fundraisers) are handled with care. We confirm deaths across two independent sources, use full names only when families have publicly identified the deceased, and never speculate on cause of death.

Corrections

We update articles in place when corrections are warranted, with a clear note describing what changed. Email corrections@diasporaupdates.com.

Editorial independence

Editorial content is not influenced by advertisers. Sponsored content, when it exists, is clearly labelled and produced separately from editorial.