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Artificial Intelligence & Automation Disclosure

Google E-E-A-T and transparency pledge: How News Stand NG leverages machine learning to index, categorize, and summarize Nigerian news responsibly.

1. Why and How We Use AI

In modern digital news operations, thousands of articles are published daily across Nigerian news outlets. To make this immense volume of information navigable, News Stand NG employs specialized artificial intelligence and machine learning models for specific, bounded tasks:

  • Topic Clustering & Entity Extraction: Detecting named entities (such as public officials, government agencies, geographical regions, and economic themes) to automatically group related reports across multiple publishers.
  • Editorial Excerpt & Key Takeaways: Generating concise 2–3 bullet point summaries strictly grounded in verified excerpts to help readers evaluate whether to read the full report.
  • Text-to-Speech (TTS) Audio Briefings: Converting textual summaries into clear audio newscasts for hands-free listening on mobile devices.
  • Categorization & De-duplication: Identifying syndicated wire stories published simultaneously across multiple outlets to reduce repetitive feed clutter.
Strict Factual Grounding: News Stand NG forbids generative AI from creating synthetic "rewrites", hallucinating unverified quotes, fabricating statistics, or authoring original reporting without human origin attribution. Every AI-assisted summary is strictly constrained to the facts presented by the original reporting publisher.

2. Human Oversight & Editorial Review

Automated pipelines are overseen by human editors:

  • Validation Rules: Automated filters enforce strict profanity, defamation, length, and neutrality validators before any algorithmic summary or metadata is published.
  • Human In The Loop: Topic introductions, investigative hub dossiers, and trending cluster overviews undergo editorial newsroom review.
  • Correction Channel: If an automated summary ever distorts or mischaracterizes a story's nuance, readers and publishers can trigger immediate human review via corrections@newsstand.ng.

3. Respecting Original Journalists

We believe AI must enhance human journalism, never cannibalize it. Our AI models do not ingest paywalled content, do not strip author bylines, and always direct readers to the original news organization for full reporting.