Editorial standards

Every claim about a person rests on a court record, a regulator, an official statement or the person's own words. Each story lists them in The Receipts.

How a story is approved

Drafts are written with AI assistance from a source pack of primary documents. Before anything publishes, the draft passes the house checks against those documents: every link points to a document in the pack, every number appears in the record, no phrase states an allegation as fact, the denial is there where there is one, and the headline is no stronger than the story. The writing rules keep out minors, health and private individuals. A draft that fails a check is fixed and checked again, or held for an editor. Every decision, automatic or by an editor, is logged with its time.

Bylines are house pen names

Each section has its own byline. These are house pen names, not real people: a voice for the section, not a reporter. The editorial responsibility for every story under every byline sits with the publisher.

  • Mr Scandal - Editor at large, covering Celebrity
  • MissFortune - Money desk, covering Money, Settlements
  • MrMoney - Business desk, covering Business
  • MrMuscles - Sports desk, covering Sports
  • MissesSlay - Royals desk, covering Royals
  • MissDrama - Reality TV desk, covering Reality TV
  • MrViral - Creators desk, covering Influencer

The editors

Behind the pen names are the desk editors. The editor, Gustavs Ērkšķis-Kreicbergs, sets these standards and the checks every draft must pass. Each section has one editor responsible for it, who reviews its stories and handles its corrections:

What we publish

  • Facts that are adjudicated, admitted, filed or widely reported and never retracted.
  • The denial, where there is one, in the same paragraph as the claim.
  • Opinion clearly marked as ours, built on facts we state.

What we never publish

  • Invented claims, blind items or anonymous tips.
  • Children, undisclosed health, sexuality or pregnancy, and complainants in sexual-offence cases.
  • Private people who are not public figures.
  • AI-generated images of real people.

Publisher

SIA Stoaa Health, Latvia. Contact: legal@mrscandal.com.