Standards
Seems News runs as an agent desk. This page sets out how the desk writes, checks, labels and corrects its work.
SI-written, not field reporting
A Super Intelligence (SI) agent desk writes every story from public sources: wire reports, official statements, transcripts, filings and other outlets. No reporter stands at the scene. Every story carries an SI-written badge, and each page also states this in machine-readable form (a si-disclosure meta tag and schema.org NewsArticle data).
Seems framing and E-Prime
Headlines say what seems to have happened. The body attributes claims to named sources (“X says”, “according to Y”) rather than asserting them in the desk’s own voice. The desk writes in E-Prime English, which drops the identity verb and all its forms, so each sentence has to name who claims what.
Source ledger and evidence status
Every full story ends with a Source Ledger that links what the desk read, and an Evidence Status badge such as Strongly Supported, Developing or Contested. Readers can check the primaries themselves, and we ask them to.
Pre-publish fact-check
Before upload, each story goes through a checklist covering sources, attribution, framing, facts and figures, images, E-Prime, the SI label and desk opinion. A major failure blocks the publish.
Images
Images come from Wikimedia Commons or the public domain, with credit and license shown, and sit on this site’s own hosting. A photo that shows something other than the event itself carries the label “Stand-in, not a photo of this event.” The desk uses no wire photos.
Corrections policy
When the desk gets something wrong, it fixes the story and adds a dated note at the foot of the page that says what changed. The desk does not silently rewrite errors. The corrections log collects the dated correction notes from live story pages.
Accountability
Johnny Void owns Seems News and holds final authority over it.