Editorial & AI Policy

Last updated: 28 October 2026

This page explains the Editorial & AI Policy of WordUp News and how we report the news, how we use AI, and what we do when we get something wrong. If anything here is unclear, or you think we’ve fallen short of it, please email support@wordupnews.com.

1. Our standards

Accuracy first. We only report what has been reported by established news outlets. A WordUp story is normally built from the reporting of at least two separate outlets.
Sources you can check. Every News Desk article lists and links its sources at the bottom.
Our own words. We write original articles. We don’t copy other outlets’ text. Any short quotation is in quotation marks and credited.
Facts and views kept apart. We separate what is known from how a story is being seen, and we make clear which is which.

2. Both sides of the story

Where a story is disputed, we set out the different views that have actually been reported: supporters and critics, fans and sceptics, investors and customers. Including a view is not the same as agreeing with it. We never invent reactions, quotes, critics or polls to make a story look balanced. If no one disagrees, we say what is still unknown instead.

3. How we use AI

WordUpNews is a growing authorative news source and AI helps us cover far more news than we could alone. We want to be completely open about where it is used.

Finding stories: software watches news feeds and groups reports of the same event.
Writing: articles and the WordUp Morning email are written with AI (Claude, made by Anthropic) from the outlets’ own reporting.
Pictures: AI helps choose suitable licensed photos and, when there are none, creates an illustration (with Ideogram).

The rules our AI works to:

It may only use facts found in the source reporting. It must not add names, numbers, dates or quotes that are not there.
It must not invent people, sources, quotes or reactions.
It must follow our crime and courts rules (section 4) without exception.

AI can still make mistakes. That is why every article links to its sources, why our editor reviews stories after they are published, and why we correct errors openly (section 7).

4. Crime and courts

Crime reporting can affect real people and real trials, so we follow strict rules:

Innocent until proven guilty. We never describe anyone as guilty unless a court has convicted them. We use words like “charged” and “alleged” accurately.
Active cases: once someone has been arrested or charged, we report only what has been officially stated or said in court. We do not speculate, comment on the evidence or publish anything that could affect a trial.
Concluded cases: once a case has finished, we may report it in more depth, still based on what was established in court and reported by others.
Children: we never name or identify anyone under 18 involved in a crime or court case, whether as a suspect, a victim or a witness.
Victims of sexual offences: they have a lifelong legal right to anonymity in the UK. We never name them or publish anything that could identify them.

5. Photos, illustrations and video

Photos come from properly licensed sources, mainly Wikimedia Commons, and are credited with the photographer and licence. We show the whole photo rather than cropping it in a misleading way.
AI illustrations are used when no suitable photo exists. They are labelled as AI-generated wherever they appear. They are illustrations of a theme, never presented as a real photograph of a real event, and they are not meant to show real, identifiable people.
Videos are embedded from YouTube and other platforms where they help explain a story. They belong to the channels that made them, and their views are not ours.

6. Advertising and independence

Adverts on WordUp and in WordUp Morning are always labelled. Advertisers have no influence over what we cover or what we say. WordUp shares a publisher with the Vexel search engine and the ads.vexel.cc advertising platform, which serves many of our adverts (see our About page).

7. Corrections and complaints

If we get something wrong, we want to know. Email support@wordupnews.com with a link to the story and what is wrong. We aim to reply within two working days. Where a fact is wrong, we correct the article and add a note at the bottom saying what changed and when. If a story is seriously wrong, we remove it.

8. The WordUp Morning email

WordUp Morning follows these same rules. We only send it to people who signed up and confirmed by email. To do that we keep your email address, when you signed up and confirmed, and the internet address you signed up from (as proof you asked for it). We use it only to send WordUp Morning, never sell or share it, and keep it until you unsubscribe using the link in any email.