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About WORA

WORA is a news service in English and Russian. It gathers reports from open sources about events around the world and shows, for each event, what is known, what is only claimed and what is disputed.

WORA is currently in a test phase, before its public launch.

Who it is for

For readers who want to see not only the news but also how well it is checked: how many independent sources support it and who exactly reported it.

How a story is made

  1. Collection. WORA reads open news feeds and official publications. It follows robots.txt and each site's terms. It does not get around paywalls.
  2. Grouping. Reports about one event, in any language, are joined into one story.
  3. Claims. Each report is broken into separate claims: who said or did what, where and when.
  4. Checking. Each claim gets a status by fixed rules: confirmed, developing, unconfirmed or disputed. The rules are on the page "How we verify".
  5. Text. The story is written from the claims in WORA's own words, in both languages. Source texts are not copied.
  6. Human approval. Before publication an editor reads the story and decides whether it goes out.
  7. Updates. After publication WORA keeps watching the sources. Every change is kept as a new version.

What AI does and what people do

  • AI systems group reports, extract claims, match them against sources and draft the texts.
  • Deterministic code, not a model, sets the verification status and the risk class by rules.
  • People set the editorial rules, approve every publication and decide on corrections and withdrawals.

WORA is at its first stage: no story is published without an editor's approval. Simple, low-risk stories could be published without a person only after a separate decision by the owner. That decision depends on measurements, and we will announce it on this page.

AI does not change the editorial rules and cannot lower a story's risk class.

Who is responsible

[Name of the responsible editor and the publisher — filled in once the legal entity exists] is responsible for the content and the editorial policy. Publisher details are on the "Legal notice" page.

Limits

  • The system makes mistakes. We measure how often and publish the figures on "How we verify".
  • Coverage depends on sources. For some countries and topics there are still few of them.
  • If you find an error, report it through the "Contact" page.