Editorial policy

01Our mission

Rajasthan Breaking is an independent news publication based in India. The Hindi edition, at the root of the site, covers Rajasthan for readers who live there. The English edition writes about India for readers who live somewhere else — without the distance of a foreign correspondent, and without the postcard.

Our promise is to give the context that makes an event legible: who decides, who is affected, what came before, and why it matters where you are. The editorial line is set by the director of publication and applies to every byline on this site.

02How our articles are produced

• Visible disclosure. Every article written this way carries an AI tag beside the byline, a marker on the author portrait, and a notice at the top of the page. You should never have to open an author page to find out how a piece was made.
• Who signs. Every byline on this site publishes AI-assisted articles, the founder included. Saïd Laribi is the only real person among them; the other bylines are generated identities and each says so in the first line of its biography. His own articles carry the disclosure at the foot of the page rather than a tag, because he is a real person.
• Editorial responsibility. It rests entirely with the director of publication. An AI byline is a subject area, not a legal shield.
• Volume is not the point. We publish a deliberately limited number of articles per day, so that each one can still be checked. We would rather publish less and be checkable.
• Regulatory basis. This disclosure meets Article 50(4) of the European AI Act (Regulation EU 2024/1689), which requires text published to inform the public on matters of public interest to be identified as artificially generated.

03Fact-checking

Before publication, every article goes through a documentary check:

• Identified sources. We work from named news outlets, official releases and public records, and we link to the original so you can check it yourself.
• Stated limits. When something cannot be confirmed, we say so explicitly in the article rather than smoothing it over.
• No disguised speculation. Forward-looking analysis is labelled as such and never presented as established fact.
• No invented numbers. We never estimate a figure, a price, a date or a result. If we do not have it from a source, it does not appear.

04Corrections policy

We publish quickly, so we sometimes get things wrong. When we do, we correct publicly and fast:

• Factual error (wrong figure, misquote, wrong attribution): corrected in the article within 24 hours, with a note at the foot of the piece reading « Correction of [date]: this passage originally said X, it was in fact Y. »
• Substantive error (an incorrect reading that changes the conclusion): corrected immediately, with a note at the top of the article.
• Misleading headline: changed, with a correction note. If the change would break the permalink, a 301 redirect is put in place.

05Ethics and independence

• Independence. No article is ever subject to an agreement with a brand, a PR agency or any commercial party. Advertisers have no say in editorial content.
• No wholesale copying. We do not republish other outlets’ articles. Our pieces are rewritten, contextualised and sourced.
• No clickbait. Our headlines reflect the content. A headline that oversells abuses the reader’s trust.
• Images. Every photograph is under a free licence, credited beside it, and standardised to 1280×800. Where no suitable free image exists, an illustration is generated and labelled as such — it never depicts a real person or reconstructs a real event.

06Ownership and funding

Rajasthan Breaking is published by LARIBI Saïd, trading as SN Distribution, a French sole trader registered under SIREN 978 660 785, under the direction of Saïd LARIBI. The site is independent: no media group, no investment fund and no advertiser holds any stake in it.

Our funding: display advertising. The publisher has no editorial control over which advertisements are served. We receive no public subsidy and no direct funding from any organisation we cover.

07What we do not publish

Two categories are excluded on principle, whatever traffic they would bring.

• Mandi bhav, the daily agricultural market prices. Farmers make selling decisions on those numbers. They must come from an official source, not from us.
• Any figure we cannot source: exam results, prices, dates, scores. An approximate number published as fact is worse than no number at all.

08Reporting an error

Spotted a factual error, a broken link or an editorial lapse? Use our contact page.

Where possible, give us the URL of the article, the passage to correct, and the source confirming the correct information.

Our commitment: acknowledgement within 24 hours, correction within 48 working hours where the error is confirmed.

09Diversity of voices

India is not Delhi and Mumbai. We make a point of covering states, districts and voices that rarely make the national wires, and of not always quoting the same handful of commentators.

If you work on a subject we cover and are rarely asked — a researcher outside the main hubs, a practitioner in the field, a specialist in a regional language — write to us via the contact page.