The Juncture Promises

The things we will never do, however big we get. Hold us to every one of them.

• One event, one story. We merge duplicate reports into a single story with all its sources, never twenty versions of the same headline.
• People over pundits. The news here is reported by the people who live it, credited as sources, not just aggregation.
• Calm by default. No auto-playing video, no animated ad blocks, no walls of charts you didn't ask for.
• Ads never hide in your reading. Any sponsorship is clearly labelled and kept out of the story flow, and supporters never see ads.
• We won't paywall the truth. Community reports are free; a story's origin, sources and corroboration are always free.
• No paywall ambushes. We flag links that dead-end at someone else's paywall.
• AI works the gate, never the pen. We put AI to work for the people, and only where it belongs: its mechanics and impartiality verify, validate, fact-check and moderate the news funnel. It never creates your news.
• Your news travels with you. Built on the open web: any phone, any computer, no lock-in.
• Readable on every screen. One responsive layout, every story, no pinch-and-zoom.
• No dark patterns. We'll never dangle locked stories or nag you to upgrade.

If you ever catch us breaking one of these, tell us at Corrections & editorial standards.

Look around.