Editorial Standards & Ethics Policy

Twice Daily Wire publishes a plain, twice-daily brief of reported news. The publication’s present editorial aim is to present headlines and short factual summaries drawn from named sources, without adding opinion, commentary, or advocacy of our own.

Advertising, sponsorship, affiliate relationships, subscriptions, or other commercial arrangements—if any later exist—do not automatically determine what appears in an edition. The Advertising & Sponsored Content Disclosure states the current commercial model. As of the date of this policy, the brief does not sell advertising or sponsored placements.

This policy binds anyone who prepares, selects, or publishes an edition, including operators, contractors, and any later-hired editors or writers. It is a standard of care for our own work. It does not create a fiduciary duty to readers, sources, or subjects beyond applicable law, and it is not a warranty of perfection.

Present desks are United States, World, Science, Business, and Health. Items may concern government, courts, crime, markets, science, and public health when those subjects are reported as news by the indexed sources. We do not presently maintain sports, entertainment, culture, or opinion desks, and we do not presently publish staff editorials, columns, or commissioned commentary.

We seek to keep opinion, editorials, and commentary off the brief. Source feeds are filtered by automated rules intended to drop items whose titles or URLs indicate opinion, editorials, columns, video roundups, consumer-advice listicles, or a paywalled publisher. Those rules are imperfect. An item that is news may still describe political events, elections, or public officials because those are facts in the world, not because we are taking a side.

We do not presently produce original investigative packages, interviews conducted by our staff, newsletters, or original video or audio. If that changes, this policy will be revised before we represent otherwise.

Most items are summaries of reporting by other publications and wire services, including the Associated Press, BBC News, CBS News, NBC News, ABC News, PBS NewsHour, The Guardian, CNBC, NASA, ScienceDaily, and France 24. The Content & Source Attribution Policy governs how we name those sources. A named source is the author of the underlying report. Twice Daily Wire is the publisher of the brief that points to it.

We may also display information that originates in government agencies, court filings, public records, press releases, official statements, corporate filings, academic publications, or other public websites when a source feed carries it. We do not thereby adopt the source’s conclusions as our own findings.

We do not presently use anonymous sources of our own. If a source article relies on anonymous sourcing, that is the source’s reporting, and we will not strip the attribution in a way that presents the claim as an unsourced Twice Daily Wire finding.

Staff and systems must distinguish, and must not conflate:

• Established facts that a source reports as having occurred;
• Allegations, accusations, charges, and claims in a lawsuit;
• Police, prosecutorial, or agency statements;
• Court findings, verdicts, and convictions;
• A source’s opinion or analysis;
• Speculation, rumor, or unverified social-media posts.

Allegations about identifiable people or organizations must not be stated as established fact. Where the source uses locutions such as “police allege,” “prosecutors said,” “the lawsuit alleges,” “court records state,” or “the company denied,” summaries should preserve that posture. We do not recast an accusation as a finding in order to shorten a headline.

We do not label a factual assertion as “opinion” merely to reduce legal risk. Because the brief does not presently publish opinion of our own, any interpretive language in a summary should be attributable to the source or removed.

We seek to provide accurate reporting of what named sources have published. Reasonable editorial effort, given the automated character of the brief, includes: selecting established news organizations and public agencies as feeds; dropping items that appear to be opinion, editorial, or filler; preserving source names and links; preferring the source’s own headline and summary rather than inventing quotations, statistics, or anecdotes; and providing a path for corrections.

We do not independently re-report every item, knock on doors, or call every subject before an edition is published. We do not invent quotations, sources, or statistics. We do not fabricate photographs. We do not knowingly publish false information.

Headlines displayed in the brief are the source’s headlines, subject to ordinary cleaning. We do not rewrite a headline in a way that overstates the source’s findings. If a headline is misleading, the remedy is the Corrections Policy, not silent alteration that hides the error.

Early accounts of a breaking event are often incomplete. Death tolls, identifications, motives, and legal status change. An edition assembled at 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. may be overtaken by later reporting. We do not freeze the world at the moment of ingest. We also do not promise real-time updates between editions.

Where a summary concerns an unfolding event, readers should treat identifications, casualty figures, and attributions of blame as provisional unless the source states a concluded official finding. Preliminary or unofficial election returns, if they appear in a source item, should not be presented as certified results.

News about crime, courts, government, and business often names people and companies. Summaries must not convert an arrest into a conviction, a filing into a judgment, or a rival’s accusation into our finding. Juvenile identifications, victims of sexual offenses, and similar sensitive categories should follow the source’s legal constraints; we will not add identifications the source withheld.

A disagreement with a source’s framing, tone, or political valence is not, standing alone, a basis to rewrite the item as if the underlying facts did not occur. A demonstration that a summary falsely states a fact about an identifiable person is a basis for correction or removal under the Corrections Policy.

These practices are designed to reduce avoidable defamation risk. They are not a claim of immunity, and they do not displace the elements of a defamation claim under applicable law.

Items concerning medicine, financial markets, securities, legal rights, or emergencies are published as news, not as advice. Nothing in the brief is a diagnosis, a prescription, an offer to sell securities, or legal counsel. Readers should consult qualified professionals and primary documents.

This disclaimer does not excuse a false statement of fact. It allocates the difference between reporting what a source said and telling a reader what to do.

Political news that appears in the brief is news of public events, not Twice Daily Wire’s endorsement of a candidate, party, or measure. Campaign claims, polling, and unofficial returns must remain attributed. We do not presently accept political advertising.

We will not present a candidate’s statement as an established fact about the world without attribution, and we will not silently omit a source’s attribution in order to sharpen a headline.

Photographs displayed with an item are retrieved from the source feed or from the publisher’s page metadata. If a credit is known from that metadata or from the image URL, it is shown. If a credit is not known, we do not invent one. Absence of a visible credit is not a claim of ownership. Details are in the Copyright & DMCA Policy and the Source Attribution Policy.

Editions are assembled on a schedule by automated systems described in the Automation & AI Disclosure. Human operators set the feeds, skip rules, and legal pages. They do not presently read and approve each item before an edition is published. That fact is disclosed so that this ethics policy is not mistaken for a promise of line-by-line human review.

We may preserve, produce, or take down material in response to a subpoena, court order, or other compulsory legal process. We do not promise absolute confidentiality of emails you send us. Where legally permitted and practicable, we may notify an affected reader or source; we do not undertake to litigate every demand.

Editorial questions and correction requests: notices@wire-brief.com. This address is for factual issues about the brief, not for political pressure campaigns or demands that we drop lawfully published news.