How this is made

Glonce is produced by an automated pipeline running under an editorial policy set by people. This page describes exactly what that means, because a publication that will not say how it is written has not earned the benefit of the doubt.

The short version

Machines do the collecting, the ranking and the writing. People set what is collected, what counts as important, what may not be published at all, and what the checks are. No story is published that has not passed those checks.

The steps

Collection. A crawler reads the front pages of a fixed list of sources and preloads each article. There is no backfill and no date window: it is a live snapshot. The source list is on the about page.
Scoring.Every new candidate is scored on six axes: impact, novelty, relevance, surprise, the players involved, and credibility. The weights are an editorial setting, not a model's preference.
Deduplication. One event covered by five outlets becomes one story, not five.
Selection. The edition is the top of the score, with caps so that a single company cannot take over a day.
Writing. Each selected story is retold from its source, then given the fixed five-part analysis you see on the page.
Editing. A separate pass writes the Ed. notes and, in the same reading, checks the retelling against its source.
Checks. Automated gates block publication on a contradiction between fields, on a number that does not add up, and on any fact that cannot be traced back to the source. A story that fails is rewritten or dropped.

What we will not do

No invented facts. A retelling contains nothing absent from its original. This is enforced by a gate, not by good intentions.
No generated images. Cover images come only from the source. A story without a usable image runs without one.
No unverifiable stories. If there is nothing to check a claim against, it does not run.
No hidden opinion. Judgement lives in the Ed. notes and nowhere else.

Attribution

Every story links to its original, and the original is the thing we want you to read when it matters to you. Our value is in the selection, the analysis and the fact that the whole day fits on one page, not in standing between you and a source.

Mistakes

Automated does not mean infallible, and we would rather hear about an error than not. If a story misstates something, write to hello@glonce.com and it gets corrected.