Editorial Standards & AI Policy

Accuracy

We publish facts we can attribute to a named source: public records, official announcements, authorized feeds, original interviews or other publications we credit and link. We do not fabricate sources, quotations, statistics, eyewitness accounts or interviews.

How we use AI

Our newsroom uses AI (Groq-hosted language models) to monitor public news feeds, draft short briefs, write summaries and suggest headlines and search metadata. AI-assisted articles are labeled. AI drafts must use only facts from their cited source. Stories involving crime, courts, deaths, injuries, minors, political or legal allegations, or developing public safety incidents require approval by a human editor before publication.

Copyright and attribution

We do not republish other outlets’ articles. When a brief is based on another publication’s reporting, we write an original summary, credit the publication and link to the original story.

Images

We prefer original, licensed or authorized photographs. When none is available we use branded illustrations, which are labeled. We never present AI-generated images as documentary photographs.

Labels

Every article is labeled as Serve Aurora Editorial, The Serve Aurora Daily, Newsroom Brief, Community Contributor, Verified Author, Opinion, Sponsored Content, Press Release or Partner Publication. Contributors are not Serve Aurora spokespeople.

Independence and conflicts

Coverage of Serve Aurora itself is labeled publisher-affiliated. Advertising and sponsorships never determine editorial coverage.

Corrections

We correct errors promptly and note corrections and significant updates at the end of the article. To request a correction, contact us through serveaurora.org/contact with the article link.