Editorial standards.

Independence and funding

NAK is an independent association, not a government body. We run no hidden advertising and sell no placement in our content: anything presented as an explainer or a guide is not paid promotion.

When a publication or project is funded or supported by a third party, we say so on the page itself. We disclose the organisation’s funding sources in general, and any potential conflicts of interest, openly.

What NAK is not

NAK is not a state body, a laboratory, a hotline or a detection service. We do not examine files, we do not remove material from platforms, and we do not give legal advice. Our texts are explainers and practical guides, and each one is labelled as such.

Sources and how we rank them

Every factual or normative claim links directly to its source. We prefer primary documents and flag secondary ones as secondary. When sources disagree, we say so rather than picking the convenient one.

Sources are ranked in this order:

1. 1state registries and official documents;
2. 2institutions and event organisers: their own records and pages;
3. 3independent media;
4. 4press releases;
5. 5social-media profiles.

We never use aggregators or sites that reprint other outlets’ news as a source. If a claim cannot be confirmed, we do not publish it.

We use the commitments of the International Fact-Checking Network as a benchmark for sourcing, methodology, funding transparency and corrections ¹. NAK is not a signatory of that code and does not claim to be.

How statuses on the Facts page work

On the Facts page every statement about NAK carries one of four statuses, so you can see what it rests on:

• Verified: confirmed by a state registry, an official document or the organiser’s own record.
• Verified, with a note: true, with a caveat stated in the sentence itself.
• As stated by NAK: the organisation’s own statement; no open primary source yet.
• Document on file: the document is not published online; it is available to media on request.

Nothing earns “Verified” merely because the organisation says so. Each statement shows the date it was last checked.

Corrections and dated updates

We correct mistakes in the open: with the change made on the page itself and the date of the correction, never silently. When a page changes in substance, we update its last-checked date and say what changed.

Found an error or an out-of-date claim? Write to us through the Contact page; we will reply and, if the error is confirmed, correct it.

Right of reply

Anyone our material discusses may reply. If a person or organisation believes it has been described inaccurately, we consider the reply and publish it alongside the material or make the correction.

Conflicts of interest

NAK’s work does not concern the personal or business affairs of its leadership. The NAK president’s own projects, and other organisations linked to its officers, are kept apart from NAK, and we do not present their statements as NAK’s.

We also do not publish investigations of information attacks, name specific people or sites, or touch disputes in which NAK’s officers are involved. We write about information attacks only as protection: what to do, not who is to blame.

Use of artificial intelligence

AI tools may assist us with drafting and translation. Every published text is reviewed by a person, and every claim is checked against the source it cites.

We never use AI output as a source. We do not publish AI-generated images of real people. And no AI detector on this site is presented as able to declare content fake or real.

Defence first

We publish nothing that makes attacks easier: no non-public indicators, no infrastructure diagrams, no data about victims. If a detail in a guide would help an attacker more than the person defending, we leave it out.