Content & Source Attribution Policy

This Content & Source Attribution Policy explains how Twice Daily Wire distinguishes original material from third-party material, how sources are named, and what a hyperlink is for. It is written for a brief that is primarily an index of other publishers’ reporting.

Readers should treat items in the brief as follows:

• Original Twice Daily Wire material — masthead copy, legal pages, and any sentence we write in our own voice about the Service. We own or license that text.
• Aggregated headlines and summaries — headlines and short descriptions taken from a source feed, cleaned of markup and truncated. These are the source’s reporting, not an original article by our staff.
• Third-party quotations — words that appear inside a source summary. We do not fabricate quotations. A quotation in a summary is the source’s quotation unless we clearly say otherwise.
• Photographs and thumbnails — still images supplied by the source feed or the publisher’s page metadata, displayed with a credit if known. See the Copyright & DMCA Policy.
• Embedded or linked material — the original article, which we do not host. Opening it is a visit to a third-party site.
• User-submitted material — emails, tips, and legal notices. These are not published as reader comments and do not represent our views.

We do not presently publish original analysis, commentary, or interviews. If we later do, they will be labeled as such and will remain subject to the Editorial Standards.

Each story card and story page displays the publisher name supplied by the feed (for example, AP News, BBC News, PBS NewsHour). That name is the primary attribution for the item. Category labels (United States, World, Science, Business, Health) are our classification, not the source’s desk name.

Secondary sources, court documents, official statements, and social-media posts mentioned inside a summary remain the source article’s sourcing. We do not undertake to re-cite every underlying document unless we have independently obtained it, which we presently do not.

We do not require attribution in a form that would be legally inappropriate—for example, repeating a name a source lawfully withheld, or implying a confidential source is ours. We do not present independently verified facts we have not independently verified.

The principal purpose of the “Read the original report” link is to send the reader to the publisher’s work, to permit verification, and to respect the source’s copyright and advertising relationship with its own audience. Known paywalled publishers are kept off the brief. A remaining destination may still ask for registration or later put a story behind a wall. That is not a defect we control.

A link or a source name is not an endorsement, partnership, affiliation, joint venture, or authorization by the third-party publication. Indexing a feed is not a license from that publisher beyond whatever rights the publicly offered feed and applicable law (including fair use) supply.

Facts are not copyrighted. Short quotations, headlines used for identification, and brief summaries for news reporting, criticism, or commentary may be permitted under the fair-use doctrine in U.S. law or fair dealing elsewhere. We do not claim that every excerpt is automatically fair use. Editorial staff and systems must use only as much third-party copyrighted expression as is reasonably necessary for legitimate reporting, indexing, commentary, criticism, or other lawful purposes—and must keep the original report a click away.

Government works of the U.S. federal government, public records, and official statements may be usable on terms that differ from private copyright. We still attribute them when they appear through a named news organization.

If a credit is known from RSS media tags, page metadata, or the image address (for example, Getty Images, Associated Press, Reuters, AFP, BBC, CBS News), the brief displays “Photo:” and that credit. If a credit is not known, we do not invent an agency name. Displaying a photograph is not a representation that we commissioned it or that the photographer has a contract with us.

The masthead, the words “Twice Daily Wire,” and our legal pages are our voice. The headline, summary, photograph, and “opens [source] in a new tab” language are the source’s work, presented by us. We will not strip source names in a manner likely to cause a reasonable reader to believe we originated the underlying report.