Editorial Policy

Independence

The Ruling Desk publishes no sponsored content, affiliate links or ads. No company pays for coverage, for a better review or for a story to go away. What gets written about is decided by what readers need to know.

When a company lends a product or gives free access for testing, the article says so. We do not accept conditions on what we write in exchange for access, and we do not send articles to companies for approval before publishing.

How articles are made

The editor chooses each topic, researches it and gathers the sources. An AI model (Anthropic's Claude) drafts the article from those sources. He reviews and edits the draft, checks its claims against the linked sources and decides whether and when it is published. He is accountable for every word, whoever or whatever typed it.

Sources

Primary sources come first: the manufacturer's specifications and documentation, official announcements, patents, court and regulatory filings. Reporting from established outlets and other people's reviews come next, named and linked. Each source is linked beside the claim it supports, not collected at the end. Video sources link to the moment that matters. Prices and availability are dated and say which market and currency they are for.

If a claim cannot be traced to a source we can link, it is left out, or the article says it could not be verified. We do not invent numbers to fill a table: a missing figure is marked as missing.

Claims, reports and tests

Articles keep three kinds of evidence apart, and say which is which in the sentence:

• Manufacturer claims: what the company says about its own product, such as rated battery life or peak brightness.
• Reported observations: what a named reviewer, reporter or document found, attributed to them.
• Our own tests: only when we actually tested something, with what, how and when.

Certainty follows the evidence. A reported figure is not presented as confirmed, one reviewer's experience is not presented as everyone's, and an explanation the company has not given is labeled as an inference. Those qualifications sit next to the conclusion, in the summary and the bottom line, not only in a later caveat. Opinion is labeled as opinion.

Testing

Most articles on The Ruling Desk are source-based analysis, and every article says at the top whether it is source-based or includes our own testing. We do not call an article a review of a product nobody here has used. When an article includes hands-on testing, it names the device, the conditions and the dates.

Translation

The Spanish edition is translated from the finished English article with AI assistance and reviewed by the editor. It keeps the same facts, numbers, sources and dates; the build refuses a translation whose dates or sources differ from the original. Measurements are given in metric units, and currencies are always explicit (US$ for US dollars, MXN for Mexican pesos). A price or availability date for one country is never presented as another's. When an article is corrected or updated, both editions change together.

AI

We write about AI, and we use it: to draft articles from the sources the editor gathered and to translate them. AI does not decide what is true. Every claim is checked against its linked source before publishing, and the editor answers for the result.

Conflicts of interest

If the editor has a personal or financial interest in a company or product an article covers, the article says so at the top.

Updates

Articles are dated. When an article is meaningfully updated, it shows an updated date next to the original one, and the change is described in the article when it affects the conclusion. Time-sensitive details such as prices, stock and legal status say when they were checked.

Corrections

Factual errors are corrected in the article as soon as we confirm them, and every correction is logged on the Corrections page with what was wrong and what changed. We do not silently rewrite facts. To report an error, use the address on the Contact page or reply to any newsletter issue.