Editorial method and AI disclosure
What we read
Only articles published by identifiable news organisations, collected through their public RSS feeds: 3,000 local outlets in 115 countries. A country briefing uses that country's own outlets. Every briefing lists every source it relies on and links to the original article. We do not reproduce article bodies.
What we look for
Business and political economy only. Each story is classified as one of eight signal kinds: Regulation, Disruption, Internal tension, Safety & health, Companies, Markets, Trade or Politics. Internal tension covers protests, violence, repression and emergency rule, reported factually from the local press, never as a forecast. Safety & health covers disease outbreaks, contaminated water, storm warnings and security incidents affecting staff and travellers — whether people and operations can stay — reported from the local press and official notices, never as a forecast. Politics is kept only when the sources state an economic consequence. Stories about other countries are kept only if the briefing's country is involved.
How it is written
Drafting is AI-assisted. A language model receives the selected articles and writes the stories, the Impact line and the Watch line under fixed rules: state only facts present in the sources, attribute each fact to its outlet, keep proper nouns, never invent figures, quotes, dates or events. Headlines, sources and links are checked automatically against the underlying articles before publication.
Automated checks
Before publication, items are checked automatically: pages that are error or anti-bot screens are rejected, duplicate links are removed, and briefings with too few valid sources are not published.
Who is responsible
Florent Kalfon (Editor & Publisher) is responsible for the editorial rules, reviews reader reports and can withdraw or correct any briefing.
Corrections
Confirmed errors are corrected in the published briefing. Material corrections are noted on the briefing itself. Report an error via our contact page; we answer within two working days.
Independence
The Geopolitician carries no advertising and receives no payment from the outlets it links to. It is funded by K-Software.