Editorial Policy

Last reviewed: 3 October 2026 · Editor: Ehtijad Ali

This page explains how articles are made on DeepHiDX. How a story starts, how it gets checked, and what we do with it later.

We wrote this down because you have no easy way to tell careful work from lazy guessing. This is the difference. Hold us to it.

1. What we choose to write about

We pick a story if at least one of these is true:

• People get it wrong. What most people believe is very different from the truth.
• It is useful. Knowing it would change what you do.
• Nobody has done it properly. The facts exist somewhere, but no one has put them together clearly.
• It explains today. It helps you see how things got this way.

We skip stories that are only shocking, stories built on one person who cannot be checked, and stories we cannot tell without helping someone do harm.

2. How we research

We always start with the original papers, not with what other websites said about them. We look at things in this order:

1. Official documents. Court papers, police statements, government notices.
2. Technical documents. The manuals and specifications that explain how the technology actually works.
3. Things we can see ourselves. Saved copies of web pages, public data, official reports.
4. Named experts. Real researchers with a name and a track record.
5. Other news sites. Useful for finding stories. Never enough on their own.

If a fact comes only from another news site, we say so in the article. You can see the places we use most on our Sources & Research page.

3. How we write

• Every fact has a source. We link it, name it, or clearly say it is our own opinion.
• We say how sure we are. Words like proven, claimed, reported and unknown all mean different things. We use them carefully.
• Numbers come with a story. Where did this number come from? Who counted it? When? If we cannot answer that, we leave the number out.
• Hard words get explained the first time we use them, and linked to the Glossary.
• We are careful about blaming people. Being charged with a crime is not the same as being guilty of one.
• The headline must match the article. If the story does not prove the headline, we change the headline.

4. Things we will never publish

Some information is left out on purpose, no matter how good the story is. We never publish:

• Links or addresses for illegal websites and shops.
• Working hacking tools or virus files.
• Step-by-step guides for fraud, hacking, or hiding money.
• Private details of people whose data was stolen.
• Anything that would wreck a police investigation, if we have been properly asked to wait.

When leaving something out changes the story, we tell you we left it out and why. We would rather publish a story with a gap than a story that works as an instruction manual.

5. Checking before we publish

No article goes straight from first draft to the website. Every one goes through four steps:

1. Fact check. Every claim is checked against a real source, using our Fact-Checking Policy.
2. Read-through. A second read, looking for unfair wording and for places where the evidence does not really prove the point.
3. Harm check. We ask one question: what could a bad person do with this article? Anything risky gets cut.
4. Link check. Every link is opened and read, to make sure it really says what we claim it says.

If an article cannot pass these steps, it does not go out. We have no set publishing schedule. That is on purpose, so nothing is rushed just to fill a slot.

6. Keeping articles up to date

This subject changes fast. Advice that was correct two years ago can be wrong or even dangerous today. So we treat articles as something we look after, not something we finish and forget.

• The Glossary, Timeline and main pages are reviewed regularly and show when they were last updated.
• Guides about tools get checked again whenever the tool or the law changes.
• Court cases get updated as the case moves along.
• Big changes get a dated note in the article saying what changed. Small typo fixes do not.

If an article is too old to fix, we mark it clearly as old rather than quietly deleting it. Mistakes are handled separately, under our Corrections Policy.

7. Money and honesty

• Nobody outside the site reads an article before it goes live, and nobody gets to approve it.
• We do not take money to write about something, to rank it highly, or to be nice about it. If we ever publish a paid article, it will say so at the top.
• If a link could earn us money, we say so on that page, and it does not change what we write.
• If the writer has any personal or money connection to a story, they say so. If it is a real problem, someone else writes it.

8. Do we use AI?

You are the kind of reader who will ask, so here is the straight answer.

AI tools may be used for boring jobs, like tidying up formatting or making a first summary of a very long document so a human can read it faster. AI is never used to decide what is true.

Every fact on this site is checked by a person, against a source that person opened with their own eyes. A human is responsible for every page. Nothing is published straight from a machine without being read and checked.

9. If you think we are wrong

Tell us. We take it seriously, we go back to the original sources, and we reply. The process is on our Corrections Policy page, or just email ehtijadalee@gmail.com.

More about how DeepHiDX works

• About UsWho we are and what we cover.
• AuthorsWho writes here and how.
• Fact-Checking PolicyHow we check facts, numbers and quotes.
• Corrections PolicyWhat happens when we get it wrong.
• Sources & ResearchThe trusted places we get facts from.
• Contact UsHow to reach us, safely.