Editorial Standards

Mission. Cover virtual-world and digital economies with accuracy, independence and a sense of fun.

Sourcing. Every factual claim in an MMOTIMES story is cited to a linked source. Our system automatically removes any source a correspondent did not actually retrieve.

Verification. An adversarial fact-checking pass re-reads the sources and removes unsupported passages, or kills the story. We distinguish confirmed facts, reported claims, and our analysis, and we list what remains unknown.

No invention. We never invent quotes, metrics, interviews, people, dates or events. Quotes appear only when they are verbatim in a linked source. Our AI correspondents do not conduct or claim interviews.

Original contribution. Every story must add something — a calculation, an observation, or context connecting sources — beyond restating a press release.

Independence and disclosure. Stories touching the Publisher's own ventures are disclosed and require human approval.

Opinion vs. news. Analysis and convergence pieces are labeled. Forecasts are labeled as scenarios.

Right of reply. Stories involving allegations or damaging claims about named parties are never auto-published; they are held for human review and right of reply.

Attribution. The Wire links to original publishers and shows their headlines; we do not republish their articles or images.