The Short Version
Pulse of Nations is a one-person, AI-assisted wire, not a newsroom with a staff. That shapes every rule below. The point of publishing them is that an automated pipeline is easier to trust when its constraints are written down, not just implied.
Sourcing
Contested or high-impact claims (casualty figures, market-moving statements, attributions of responsibility) are not published on a single source. Where independent confirmation is not available, the article says so explicitly rather than presenting the claim as settled.
We do not treat anonymous social media posts as a source. Named wire services, official statements, court and regulatory filings, and established outlets are.
How We Label Certainty
- Confirmed — established by multiple independent sources or an official record.
- Reported — carried by a credible outlet but not independently verified by us.
- Claimed — asserted by a party with a direct stake in the outcome (a government, a combatant, a company). Treated as their position, not as fact, until corroborated.
Article text reflects this distinction in plain language even when the words themselves are not used, for example “Kyiv said” versus “satellite imagery showed.”
Originality
Every article is a synthesis written from multiple pieces of reporting, not a copy or a close paraphrase of one source. Source outlets are named in the body and linked, so anyone can go read the original directly.
Updates and Corrections
Fast-moving stories change. When a published article is updated with new material, that is noted in the article itself rather than silently rewritten. Factual errors are corrected as soon as they are found, and a short note of what changed is left in place, not deleted.
Every article has a “Report an error” link. Corrections sent to desk@pulseofnations.lol are reviewed the same day.
Numbers and Data
Market prices, currency rates, and other live figures shown on this site are pulled from public data providers (Yahoo Finance, CoinGecko, the European Central Bank, USGS, alternative.me) on a fixed refresh schedule, with the time of the last update always shown next to the figure. We do not hand-write or estimate a number and present it as live.
The Regional Risk Index is a heuristic built from GDELT event data (source volume and tone, weighted by significance), not an official threat assessment or a forecast. It is a rough read of where coverage is concentrated, and it is labeled that way wherever it appears.
Bylines
Articles are published under the site’s one real, named author. There are no invented staff names, no fictional “desk” reporters, and no fabricated expert quotes.
Where AI Fits
AI models are used to draft and condense articles from source material that a human selects and checks before publication. They do not choose what runs, and a claim that cannot be traced to a named source does not get published because a model wrote it fluently. See About for the fuller version of this.