Editorial and AI policy

BehindLines publishes international news in five languages (French, English, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese). This page explains plainly how the articles are produced.

Our rules

• At least two sources. Every article rests on at least two reliable sources from two different outlets, linked in the article. A story broken by a single outlet is only covered once a second one has confirmed it, and it is always credited ("according to X, which first reported it").
• The facts, never the text. Headline and article are entirely rewritten; an automated check compares every text with extracts from the sources and rejects any copying. We never reproduce paywalled content.
• Every article adds something: a synthesis, context, five languages. We would rather publish less, and better.
• People's rights. Presumption of innocence, victims and minors never named, no hateful content, no nudity. The laws of the country concerned and international law apply.

How artificial intelligence is involved

We use artificial-intelligence tools to write the articles from the sources we collect, to translate them into our five languages and to review them: one tool writes, another checks every fact against the cited sources. Automated checks then enforce the charter (sources, excluded topics, anti-copy, duplicates) before anything is published.

To be clear: review is not systematically carried out by a human. A human, Vasuo Studio, sets the rules, decides on sensitive topics, answers reports and takes responsibility for what is published; they have not read every article before it went online. Every page carries the notice "written with the help of AI". If an error gets through despite these checks, our corrections policy applies.

Excluded topics

• Thai politics and the Thai monarchy, from any angle.
• Articles touching Thailand are published only with the explicit approval of the editor responsible for publication.
• Chinese domestic politics in the Chinese edition.
• No content in the Thai language.

Images

Images are royalty-free or generated, and their licence is stated. We never generate the face of a real person.

When in doubt, we do not publish

An article whose facts are not sufficiently established stays a draft. Any article can be unpublished immediately, and every publication is logged.