Editorial policy

These are the rules every YouScoop story follows. They are built into the system that publishes it, not left to memory.

What we publish

• Only what is trending. A story must be trending in at least two places (Google searches, X, or the outlets’ own pages).
• Only what two outlets reported. At least two real news outlets must have reported it. We never write a story only one page claims.
• At most a dozen stories a day — never a quota. A quiet day has few or none.

What we never publish

Deaths of private people, anything about minors, suicide, sexual crimes with named victims, unverified health claims, and any claim only one source carries — however much it trends.

How AI is used

An AI model writes each story in our own words from the outlets’ reports, plus the “why it matters” lines. It is instructed to state only what those reports say: no invented names, numbers, quotes, reactions or motives. No person reads each story before it is published; instead, every story must pass two automatic checks against its named sources:

1. Every number and every full name in the story must appear in the outlets’ reports.
2. A separate AI fact-check reads the story beside the reports and lists any claim they do not support. One unsupported fact and the story is refused.

A refused story is never published, not even half-checked. Every story names and links the outlets it is based on so readers can check them too.

Tone

Light Taglish and a bit of wit on showbiz, sports and viral stories. Disasters, accidents and deaths are written in plain, respectful English, with no jokes. Crime stories say “alleged” and “suspect” and name no one the outlets did not name.

Politics

Politics is covered like any other trend, under the same two-outlet rule, in a neutral voice. We take no side and endorse no one.

Other people’s work

We never copy an outlet’s text or re-upload its video. Videos and posts are embedded from the owner’s own page with a credit; photos are the video’s own preview or free-licence images, credited. Owners can have their content removed through the corrections form.

Ads

YouScoop may show ads, clearly labelled “Advertisement”. Advertisers never choose, pay for or see our stories before they run. A sponsored post, if we ever run one, will say so at the top.

Corrections and removals

If the outlets take their reports down, our story comes down too. Readers can report a mistake through the corrections form; see the corrections policy for what happens next.

Who is responsible

YouScoop is owned and run by Tekhx. Stories carry the byline YouScoop Desk. Questions about this policy: support@tekhx.com.