Jamaa News.

Editorial Policy

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This page explains how Jamaa News works, in enough detail that you can judge for yourself whether to trust what you read here. It applies to every article on the site without exception.

1. Where our topics come from

Every article begins as a genuine spike in the Google Trends feed for the United States. We do not manufacture demand, we do not chase topics because they attract higher advertising rates, and we do not republish other outlets' stories to ride their traffic.

If a query is trending but we cannot say anything useful and accurate about it, we skip it. Skipping is a normal outcome here, not a failure.

2. How articles are written

Trends News uses an automated pipeline. Topics are sourced from Google Trends, drafted by a large language model, paired with a licensed or generated image, and published under the supervision of our managing editor. We disclose this on every article. We do not publish under invented bylines, and we do not present AI-generated text as first-hand reporting. Where an article touches on a living person or a developing event, we limit ourselves to what is verifiable in public sources.

Concretely, that means a large language model produces the draft, working from the trending query and the context it has about the subject. It is instructed to write only what it actually knows, to state uncertainty plainly rather than smoothing it over, and never to invent a quote, a statistic, a date, or a source in order to fill a paragraph.

3. What we automatically refuse to publish

Four checks run before anything reaches the site. A draft that fails any one of them is discarded rather than edited into shape:

  • Low confidence. If the model is not reasonably sure what the trending query refers to, the topic is skipped. Guessing at the identity of a person or event is how automated sites end up publishing fiction.
  • Sensitive subjects. Deaths, crimes, tragedies, graphic material, and unverified allegations about named living people are outside what this pipeline handles. These require human reporting and human judgement.
  • Thin content. Anything below our minimum length is rejected. A short article on a topic we do not understand well is worse than no article.
  • Safety refusals. If the model declines a topic on safety grounds, we do not attempt to work around it.

4. Subjects we do not cover at all

We publish no medical, legal, or financial advice. Where a trending topic touches on health, law, or money, we describe what happened and stop there. We will not tell you what treatment to seek, what your rights are, or what to do with your money — and you should be wary of any automated publication that does.

5. Accuracy and corrections

Automated production does not lower the standard we hold ourselves to. If an article contains a factual error, we want it reported.

Email [email protected] with the URL of the article and a description of what is wrong. We will review it, correct the article where the complaint is valid, and update the article's modified date so the change is visible. We aim to reply within two business days.

We do not quietly delete articles to make errors disappear. Where a correction materially changes an article, we say so on the page.

6. Accountability

Everything published here appears under one named editor, Mostafa Jacob (Founder & Managing Editor), who is responsible for the standards on this page and for the topic-selection rules that drive the pipeline. We do not publish under invented bylines, and we do not attach fabricated biographies or fake social profiles to our articles.

7. Advertising and independence

Jamaa News is funded by display advertising through Google AdSense. Advertisers have no influence over which topics we cover or how we cover them, and there is no paid placement, sponsored content, or affiliate arrangement on this site. If that ever changes, this page will change with it and any such content will be labelled.

8. Changes to this policy

This policy was last updated on the date shown at the top of this page. If we change how the site produces its content, we will update this page first.