What the workflow actually does
Signals are collected from public trend and news-discovery feeds. A model with live web search then gathers candidate sources and returns exact URLs.
A second stage extracts the specific factual claims a draft would make, and records which source supports each one.
A drafting model writes the article from that dossier. A separate model, from a different provider, then checks each claim against the collected sources.
Statements the review could not support are removed from the article before publication.
A deterministic gate then decides whether the article may publish. It is code, not a model: it checks article length, source counts, whether the central claim is verified by a primary source, whether the reviewed text is the text being published, and whether any link appeared that review never examined.
Where a person decides
Northline's editor reviews and releases articles. The workflow can also release an article on its own once it has cleared every check above, and that automatic release is currently switched off.
Sensitive subjects — elections and politics, health, personal finance, legal accusations, crime, and coverage involving minors — carry a higher bar and are routed to the editor rather than released by the workflow.
Any article the gate blocks is held for a person. It is not retried until it passes.
What we do not claim
We do not claim a human read an article unless a human review record exists. Every article states its own workflow on the page, and where no human reviewed it, it says so.
We do not describe the fact review as independent unless a different provider actually performed it.
We do not present generated imagery as a photograph of an event. Illustrations are labelled as illustrations.
Limitations you should know
A model can misread a source. The review stage reduces that risk; it does not eliminate it.
Verification is only as good as the sources found. Where a claim could not be supported, the article says what remains unclear rather than asserting it.
If you find an error, the corrections page explains how to report it. Corrections are published as new versions and the previous published version is preserved.