How We Source Our Stories

FreshSynapse is a small news site, and our sourcing standard is the product. Every article we publish follows the same rules, set out here so readers — and anyone reviewing the site — can check our work.

Primary sources first

We start from the primary document wherever one exists: the press release, regulatory filing, developer announcement, research paper or official data behind a story. Each article ends with a Sources section linking to those documents, so you can read what we read. When a story originates in another outlet's reporting, we name that outlet in the Sources section rather than presenting its reporting as our own.

Company claims are labelled as claims

Numbers and statements that come from a company's own announcement, executive remarks or marketing material are described as what they are — the company's claim, estimate or framing. A figure a company reports about itself is never republished as an independently measured fact, and where a claim depends on the company's own definition (for example, what counts as a "search"), we say so in the article.

Unconfirmed figures are flagged

Where a number cannot be confirmed from a primary source — a deal price a company has not disclosed, a launch date reported second-hand — the article says so plainly, attributes the figure to whoever reported it, and keeps it out of the headline unless the sourcing supports it. If later reporting changes a figure we have published, we update the article and show an "Updated" date next to the publish date.

What we do not publish

Rumours, unsourced social-media claims and stories we cannot verify against a primary source or reputable reporting are left out, not padded in. A quieter day with three verified stories is better than a longer list built on guesswork.

Images

Article images are licence-safe — public-domain or freely licensed photographs, or official material used with credit. Every image is credited under the photo, and purely illustrative images are labelled as illustrative. We do not use other outlets' copyrighted photography.

Corrections

If we get something wrong, we fix the article, note the update with an "Updated" date, and — for anything material — say what changed. To flag an error or request a correction, contact us via the contact page.