Oppositioner offers a different angle on the same facts. This page explains how we report, how we label what you read, how artificial intelligence is used in our newsroom and how we correct mistakes.
1. Independence
Our alternative angle lives in the stories we choose, the questions we put to those in power and our analysis. It never lives in altered facts. Advertisers and sponsors have no say over our editorial decisions, and paid content is always labelled as such.
2. Sourcing and verification
- Every factual claim in an article must come from a source we can name. We do not invent facts, figures, quotes, names or dates.
- We name and link the sources an article relies on, so readers can check them.
- We write our own text. Direct quotes are attributed to the person or publication that made them and kept short.
- When something is not yet confirmed, we say so, and we say who is making the claim. Speculation is never presented as fact.
3. News, analysis, opinion and sponsored content
Each article carries a label next to its headline:
- News reports what happened, who said it and what is still unverified.
- Analysis explains the context and likely consequences of events, based on the reported facts.
- Opinionis the author's argument and is framed as such.
- Sponsored content is paid for by a third party. It is marked as sponsored and is not written as independent reporting.
4. How we use AI
Part of our coverage is produced by an editorial pipeline in which AI drafts articles from published sources. Those articles carry an AI-assisted label next to the byline, and the author pages of the bylines that publish them say so.
AI-assisted articles follow the same rules as every other article:
- Drafts are reviewed against their own sources before publication. A draft with claims its sources do not support is sent back for revision or stopped.
- Our reviewers flag sensitive topics. An article flagged for an accusation against a named person, health or medical claims, or financial forecasts is always held for a human editor. An accusation here means an allegation of a crime, corruption, abuse or serious misconduct that is not a court ruling or an on-record statement by a named person or institution; claims from anonymous sources count as accusations.
- An article on elections, war or terrorist attacks can be published without a human editor only when all three of our automated reviewers, a chief editor and two critics, approve it in the first review round, at least two independent publishers back the sources it was written from, and every casualty figure appears in those sources. Otherwise it goes to a human editor. Every fact in it must be attributed to a named source; analysis and opinion may argue a view, but their facts follow the same rule.
5. Corrections
When we confirm a factual error, we correct the article and add a dated correction note at the end of it explaining what changed. Corrections that change the meaning of a story are highlighted. When the text of an article changes more than ten minutes after publication, its byline shows the time of the latest update.
To report an error, write to editorial@oppositioner.com with the article link and what you believe is wrong, or use our contact page.
6. Contact the newsroom
Questions about these standards, complaints and conflicts of interest can be sent to editorial@oppositioner.com. Learn more about Oppositioner and our authors.