Our editorial standards

We never republish or rewrite another outlet’s article. Every LoopedIn story is written from a fact sheet — a structured set of verified facts our newsroom assembles from multiple independent sources. The people who write the stories never see the original articles, only the facts. This is a firewall built into our software, not just a policy.

We draw on primary sources (for example, public-domain reporting from agencies like NASA), permissively licensed journalism, and mainstream outlets used to confirm that a story is real and widely reported. A fact is marked confirmed only when independent sources agree; single-source or still-developing claims are labeled as such, and a story generally isn’t published until it is corroborated by two independent sources or a primary source.

We are transparent that AI helps us work at three reading levels at once. One AI model drafts each story from the fact sheet. A second, independent AI then interrogates that draft against our safety and accuracy standards — checking that every sentence traces to a verified fact, that nothing is invented, and that the language fits the age group. No story reaches a child until a human editor approves it.

Each story is written three times — for ages 5–8, 9–12, and 13–17 — with reading level, vocabulary, and framing matched to each group using established measures (Common Core text-complexity bands and Flesch-Kincaid readability). Difficult news is handled with care: truthful but never graphic, showing the helpers, and never telling a child how to feel. If a story can’t be told appropriately for a given age, we simply don’t publish it for that age.

When we get something wrong, we fix it and say so. Corrected stories carry a visible note describing what changed. We’d always rather issue a clear correction than quietly edit the record.

LoopedIn is ad-free and never behaviorally advertises to children. We do not build advertising profiles of kids and do not use engagement-maximizing mechanics on children’s screens. See our children’s privacy page for details.