Trust contract

Editorial policy

How Realm First! verifies signals, labels uncertainty, uses automation and handles corrections.

Our claim labels

Confirmed means a primary source or official announcement supports the claim. Observedmeans a traceable technical or public change exists, but its meaning is not confirmed. Interpretationmarks our reasoning. Unconfirmed keeps a lead visible only when the uncertainty is useful to readers.Debunked records a claim that the evidence no longer supports.

Source hierarchy

  1. Primary official material, authenticated developer or service evidence.
  2. Named specialist reporting with a reproducible source trail.
  3. Community observations used as leads, never silently upgraded to facts.

A link is not automatically permission to republish. We do not copy full articles, images or protected feed content. References to third-party reporting are links plus original Realm First! analysis, subject to the source's terms.

Review and automation

Every publishable article has a named author, an asset-rights record, a source ledger and a review timestamp. Higher-risk leak, live-event, rights and high-reach stories require a second reviewer. Automation may discover, deduplicate, outline and prepare a draft or social variant; a human approves facts, wording, rights and publication.

AI assistance, when used, is disclosed in the article record. AI is not treated as a source and does not turn a thin rewrite into original reporting.

Updates and corrections

Material factual changes receive a visible note and timestamp. We preserve the original meaning in the correction log, link the relevant source and explain what changed. Contact the desk if a published claim needs review.