Methodology

How a Global Checkmate piece is made, how we label what we know, and what we do when we get something wrong.

How pieces are made

1. Scan. Every day we scan open sources: official statements, wire services, regional media, data from bodies such as the UN, GDACS and USGS, and our own monitoring.
2. Draft. An AI system drafts the piece and lists a source for every factual claim. A draft without sources is rejected automatically and never reaches an editor.
3. Verify. Davi Martins checks the claims against the sources, rewrites what needs judgement, and decides whether the piece runs.
4. Publish. Nothing is published without his approval. Every piece states that it was researched and drafted with AI assistance and edited and verified by Davi Martins.

Sources and confidence

Every piece ends with its sources. Each source carries one of three labels:

• confirmed: established by a primary source (an official record or statement, a document, our own observation) or by several independent credible sources.
• reported: reported by a credible outlet or agency but not yet independently confirmed.
• unverified: a claim in circulation that we could not verify. We include it only when the claim itself matters, and we say so.

The Bottom line at the top of each piece says how confident we are overall.

AI policy

• AI helps us scan, summarise and draft. It does not decide what is true or what gets published; a person does.
• Every factual claim must trace to a source a reader can open. No anonymous "experts say".
• We never publish AI-generated images of real events, places or people. News photos are real, licensed and credited. Maps and charts are drawn from data.
• AI-generated graphics appear only on brand surfaces such as banners, never as evidence of anything.