---
title: "Editorial standards and AI policy"
description: "How eclair.world checks facts, cites sources, uses AI tools, labels AI illustrations and corrects mistakes."
url: "https://eclair.world/editorial-standards"
lang: "en"
author: "Thierry Gustin"
published: "2026-11-12"
updated: "2026-11-12"
---

# Editorial standards and AI policy

**These standards explain how eclair.world chooses, checks, writes, illustrates and corrects its articles.** They apply to every article on the site and were last reviewed in November 2026.

## How are facts checked?

Every figure, date, quote and study in an eclair.world article comes from a source that is linked in the article. Sources are, in order of preference: official statistics and institutions, peer-reviewed research, primary documents (laws, reports, company filings) and established news organisations. When sources disagree, the article says so.

- No invented figures, quotes, studies or experts.
- Quotes are reproduced only when they were made publicly and can be checked.
- Each article ends with a list of its sources, with links.
- Dates are given so readers know when a fact was true.

## How does eclair.world use AI?

eclair.world uses AI tools to help research topics, summarise documents and draft articles. AI does not decide what is published. The editor-in-chief checks the sources, edits the text and approves every article before it goes online.

Images marked “Illustration generated with AI” are created with an image-generation model (FLUX, via fal.ai). They illustrate a subject; they are never presented as photographs of real events, and they never depict real, identifiable people.

## What about health, money and legal topics?

Articles about health, money or law are informational. They do not replace advice from a doctor, a financial adviser or a lawyer, and they say so.

## How are mistakes corrected?

When an error is found, the article is corrected promptly and a note at the end of the article explains what was changed and when. Report an error to [contact@eclair.world](mailto:contact@eclair.world) with the address of the article and the source that shows the error.

## How are headlines written?

Headlines summarise what the article says. eclair.world does not use misleading, exaggerated or sensational headlines, and does not hold back the key information to make readers click.

## Who is responsible?

The editor-in-chief and publisher is Thierry Gustin. See [About eclair.world](https://eclair.world/about) and the [legal notice](https://eclair.world/legal-notice).