The publication
Editorial standards
& corrections
Readers should be able to examine the evidence, understand the argument, and see what changed when a fact was wrong.
Sources and interpretation
Articles link to supporting documents and reporting. Primary material, such as a court order, published policy, research paper, or vendor documentation, is used where available. Reporting is identified as reporting; an allegation is not a finding.
The essays distinguish documented facts from interpretation, firsthand accounts, and hypothetical examples. A vendor’s description of a control is not independent testing of that control. When the available evidence has a material limit, the article should say so.
The published Sources section gives readers the material supporting an essay. Internal research notes and verification records are working documents, not a promised public attachment.
Relationships and illustrations
Thomas Tornatore writes The Wrong Default and founded Fellowship Intelligence. Relevant relationships are disclosed where they bear on an article. Always Questioning LLC publishes the newsletter.
Some editorial illustrations are created with AI assistance. They are conceptual images, not documentary photographs or evidence of an event.
Corrections and updates
Typos, formatting, and broken links may be fixed without a correction notice when the meaning is unchanged. Material factual corrections carry a dated note on the article explaining what was wrong and what changed.
If an article’s central factual claim does not hold, the article is retained with a clear, dated retraction rather than silently removed. When an error reached readers by email, the correction should also reach those readers through a subsequent edition or notice.
The original publication date remains visible. A separately recorded material update can carry an update date. A routine website rebuild does not count as an editorial update.
Report an error
Email [email protected] with the article title, the statement in question, and supporting material where available. Thomas reviews correction requests against the evidence before changing the record.