Verified open media for India/Built on Iron
No editor — only rules anyone can read
Citizens file reports and evidence. A desk corroborates them against each other and against official sources, publishes only what clears a published ladder, and posts a visible correction when later evidence turns. A language model ranks and reconciles — it never decides what is true.
The publishing ladder — live
Held
rule: held_observation
Citizen reports and official feeds meet in one claims ledger; the ladder is pure code over it.
TIER_COMMUNITY = 3 TIER_NEWS = 10 TIER_URGENT = 50 OFFICIAL = {"pib_en", "rbi", "sebi", "mygov_consultations"} MIN_PRESS_SOURCES = 2 # citizens = distinct submitter hashes, never raw counts if official: return "official" if citizens >= TIER_URGENT: return "urgent" if citizens >= TIER_NEWS: return "news" if citizens >= TIER_COMMUNITY: return "community_report" if press_families >= MIN_PRESS_SOURCES: return "news" return None # held_observation
Only distinct submitters count; a coordinated burst from one source is one citizen.
Earned when a report is corroborated, lost when it is contradicted. Credibility buys processing priority — never verification.
No contacts, passwords or platform IDs cross into the desk — only salted hashes and a credibility band.
When verified evidence later contradicts a published story, a deterministic check posts a correction onto that story’s visible history. Nothing is silently edited. The only human control is an operational kill switch — pause or retract — never an editorial one.
An AI anchor reads the verified news aloud, and every sentence it speaks is journaled, linked to the evidence behind it.
Example · how a correction renders
Community report → news. 14 distinct citizens; municipal notice attached.