Editorial Policy

Media Scientist is a personal publication with one author (see the about page), which makes the editorial policy short and the accountability simple: everything here is my responsibility.

Sourcing

• Factual claims - platform behaviour, regulation, industry announcements - are cited and linked to the source, preferring primary sources (documentation, filings, official announcements) over coverage of them.
• Where a post reports a test or analysis, it states what was measured, over what period, and what the limitations were. A result you cannot interrogate is an anecdote.
• Opinion and interpretation are flagged as such. The site exists to separate the two, so blurring them here would be embarrassing.

What I will not publish

• Claims I have not checked, statistics I cannot trace, or quotes that were never said.
• Vendor talking points dressed as analysis. Nobody pays for coverage on this site, and there are no sponsored posts or affiliate links.
• Confidential information from any employer or client, past or present. Where professional experience informs a post, it is generalised.

Corrections and updates

Digital media changes fast, and being wrong in public is part of writing in public. When a post turns out to be wrong, it gets corrected visibly - significant corrections are noted in the post rather than silently rewritten. Posts about fast-moving topics carry their dates prominently; treat old posts as history, not advice.

AI assistance

An AI research assistant helps monitor industry news and prepare background briefs. How that works, and where the line sits, is documented in the AI use disclosure. The short version: drafting is assisted, judgement is not, and nothing publishes without my sign-off.