Accuracy and corrections

Veramundi does not write news. It shows newspaper headlines, with a link to each one, and short AI-generated texts based on those headlines (the background in the «Compare the papers» also comes from Wikipedia). These are the rules we follow so as not to add to, swap or distort what newspapers said.

What we show

Headlines as newspapers published them, in the original language, with a link to the article. We never change a headline.
Story grouping, topics and order come from fixed, public rules, with no case-by-case choices. The only AI in this sorting is a model that only classifies (Jev, by TypeSafe AI): it gives a second opinion on what is sport or celebrity news, on what is Brazilian and American politics in the Brazil and United States editions, on each story's topic and on what is defence or economy news, and says whether two headlines close to the grouping threshold report the same event (see Method). It writes no text.
Newspaper and country counts show the coverage collected, not the importance or truth of a story.

Rules for AI-generated texts

Only what the headlines say. No facts, numbers, causes, consequences or context that are not in the headlines.
A source for every sentence. At the end of each sentence, numbered references lead to the headlines it relies on.
Who says and who does. A claim stays attributed to whoever made it («Moscow says…») and never becomes a confirmed fact; the attacker is never swapped with the attacked, nor the accuser with the accused; each number stays with its owner.
No judgements or predictions. When newspapers say different things, we only say who says what.
Balance. Newspapers that say the same thing appear together; no newspaper or country gets more space than the others.
Labelling. A footer notice identifies AI-generated summaries and links to the explanation in About. Sources remain next to each sentence.
Public, sealed instructions. A change is a new version, with a date and a SHA-256 fingerprint (see Method).

Compare the papers

For every featured story (the main one and the three beside it, on the home page and in the Portugal, Brazil and United States editions), for the other home page stories told by at least 5 newspapers from 3 countries and, within a daily request limit, for the most-covered stories in the «Economy and Markets» and «Defence» sections told by newspapers from at least 2 countries, an AI-generated text shows the middle ground of all the information coming in, under the same rules above plus these (sealed instructions sinteses/instrucoes-contexto-v5.md):

Common ground only carries what newspapers from at least two countries say; a sentence backed by a single country is removed automatically. In a story told only by newspapers from one country, or from two countries with nothing both say, it carries what at least two different newspapers say, naming their country. In featured stories the same applies with three countries or more; and if no fact is reported by two newspapers, the text says that the accounts differ and shows what each one says, attributed to its newspaper.
Where accounts differ says who claims what. When numbers do not match, it shows the range and the owner of each number. No average is ever made and no number is picked: a number no source gave is removed automatically. Each difference is marked as a contradiction when at least two newspapers say things about the same fact that cannot both be true (different numbers for the same count, one says it happened and another that it did not); a contradiction must cite at least two newspapers, or it is removed automatically. Only then does the story card show “Sources disagree”. It is a signal, not a verdict: Veramundi does not say which account is true.
Who is involved gives each party the same treatment, with what it did or said according to the headlines. Loaded words only appear attributed to whoever uses them.
Background comes only from the opening of English Wikipedia articles found by an automatic search with the story's words, linked to the revision used (CC BY-SA licence). With no article about the story, there is no background.
A position repeated by many newspapers is still the position of whoever took it: the majority does not decide who is right.

Analysis: what each commentator said

On the Analysis page, a text written with the help of AI sums up, once a week and per topic (defence, politics), what each commentator said and compares their readings (sealed instructions sinteses/instrucoes-vozes-v1.md). Only the headlines of the pieces and the start of the description the paper or channel itself publishes in its feed go in; never the text of the articles nor the audio. Each sentence links to the pieces it relies on. A sentence about a person may only cite that person's pieces; Where they agree and Where they differ only carry sentences backed by pieces from at least two people, and a number that is not in the cited pieces is removed automatically. There are no labels and no verdict on who is right: these are the opinions of whoever says them.

Commentary shows

We record the audio of some politics and defence commentary shows on television, radio and podcasts and transcribe it automatically. From the transcript, a text written with the help of AI (sealed instructions sinteses/instrucoes-tv-v1.md) sums up what was said and who said it. Before the text is stored, we check without AI that each paragraph points to minutes that exist in the show, that every number is in the transcript near those minutes and that every quote is there word for word; anything that fails is removed. Nothing is published until the director has reviewed and approved it. We publish only the summary and up to three short quotes, of 25 words or fewer, with the minute; never the transcript or the audio. When it is not certain who said a sentence, it is not published under anyone's name.

Translated headlines

When a story only has headlines in other languages, the headline shown on the English site is a translation made with the help of artificial intelligence (sealed instructions sinteses/instrucoes-traducoes-v1.md). The original headline always appears below it («Original in Spanish: …»). In the Weather, Economy and Defence sections, single-newspaper headlines and each newspaper's own headline are translated the same way; until a translation exists, that story is not shown. If another newspaper in the same story gave the headline in English, that one is used and nothing is translated. The translation adds and removes nothing, keeps who says and who does, and a translation with a number that is not in the original is rejected automatically. Story grouping and the tone measure always use the original headlines.

Defence: offices, positions and alliances

On the leaders' pages, the «Defence» block comes from the sealed list lexico/defesa-pessoas-v1.json (defesa-1). It shows the office and the power it gives over defence, candidacies that are declared or officially nominated (names only mentioned in the press as possible do not appear; a candidacy already contested is shown as «ran», with the official result) and the person's own words on defence, each with its type (election manifesto, speech, televised debate, legislative proposal, vote, law, budget, interview, statement), the date, the official source and a copy in the Internet Archive, which the engine makes by itself for each new source. Veramundi does not label anyone: no labels of ours, only dated words and acts. Wikipedia is only used as a lead to the source. The translations of the quotes were made with the help of AI and reviewed, with the original shown. Quotes from the last 12 months come first; older ones (election manifestos, for example) go under «Background», with their date shown. When a statement is signed by the party (manifesto, resolution, press release), the context says it is the party's position. Every day the engine checks on Wikidata whether each person still holds the office; if Wikidata gives another holder, or if the office has not been checked for more than 30 days, the office stops appearing until the list is corrected in a new, also sealed, version. The country's alliances are the mutual defence treaties in force from the sealed list aliancas-1.

Automatic checks before publishing

A sentence without a valid source is not published.
A sentence with a number that is not in the headlines it cites is not published. A round figure up to 10% lower is accepted («more than 800» when the headline says 808), as are small numbers spelled out in the headline.
If the text is not complete in both languages, nothing is published and the previous one stays.
When the instructions change, texts written with the old version are redone first.
Every morning, an automatic audit checks the newspaper collection, «Breaking news», the «Compare the papers» of the featured stories and the image credits; anything that fails is fixed and, when it is a published error, recorded below.

Known limits

Automatic checks do not catch everything: a swapped attribution without numbers can get through. That is what corrections are for.
Topics and the pages for people and countries pick headlines by fixed words, which sometimes appear in another sense («army» of supporters, «attack» in sport).
Images with the news are not photographs of the event: they are portraits of the people named (free or official photographs), official photos published that day by the Kremlin or the White House, photographs of places (only for the highlighted stories on the home page) and, for some subjects, AI-generated illustrations, always labelled as such. They are chosen by headline words and may not match what the story tells (rules and credits in About).

How to request a correction

Write to info@veramundi.com with the page link and what is wrong. If there is an error, we correct it and record the correction on this page, with a date. If you are responsible for a newspaper and want a headline removed, use the same address.

Recorded corrections

2026-10-22 · «War and conflict» topic: the AI-generated summary said Ukraine claimed to have downed more than 800 Russian drones; the cited headlines said Moscow claimed to have downed more than 800 Ukrainian drones. We revised the instructions (topics v3; stories and regional summaries v2) with a «who says and who does» rule, added an automatic number check, and the summary was rewritten.