How AuroraToday publishes
Every article passes mechanical integrity gates before it ships. Human editorial review is the only authority that can publish what the gates hold back.
1. Sources
News content comes from verified public feeds (Aurora Sentinel, Google News Aurora, KDVR, Denverite, Aurora Chamber, La Voz Colorado, Adams County, CU Anschutz) and monitored civic pages (Legistar agendas, building permit statistics).
2. Integrity gates
Each article passes mechanical verification before publishing: a substance gate, banned-phrase filters, a quote firewall (quotes must appear verbatim in the source), claim verification (numbers and names must exist in the source corpus), and an AI faithfulness check.
3. No invented details
Claims that cannot be traced to source material are not published by the system — period. Human editorial review is the only authority that can release gate-held content (pending review).
4. Bilingual QA
Spanish output is checked by a separate AI reviewer for mistranslation, name/number drift, added claims, and biased framing. Anything that fails routes to a human review queue.
5. AI transparency
AI-generated and machine-translated content is labeled in our data, and this policy is public.
6. Community moderation
The forum is AI-moderated and fails closed: when the moderation system is unavailable, posts queue for human review instead of auto-publishing.
7. Corrections
Report an error through our contact page. The editorial desk reviews every correction request and publishes fixes on the affected article.