Editorial Policy

Last policy update: July 14, 2026.

Current recovery status

FreeBrain is recovering an archive that includes scaled, AI-assisted articles. Autonomous generation and publication of new-topic articles is currently disabled by the active recovery publication lock. Existing publication does not mean a page has completed human, expert, or claim-level review.

How content refresh works

1. An approved URL action ledger defines whether a page may be kept, improved, rewritten, merged, or temporarily noindexed.
2. The compatible archive-recovery controls are loaded. A low-risk educational update may be released automatically only after its private revision passes the signed URL action, source-evidence, originality, exact quality-rubric, contextual-link, cohort-rate, and live-verification gates. Sensitive or reviewer-required work remains blocked until its required review is genuine and version-bound.
3. For eligible low-risk educational updates, the system researches first, prepares one private revision, checks every approved source and material claim, rejects generic or duplicated output, requires every item in the exact quality rubric to pass, and stages relevant inbound links before any atomic public write.
4. A passing machine review may authorize only the signed low-risk archive-refresh scope; it is never described as human, expert, or professional review. Sensitive health content and every URL marked for verified review remain blocked until a genuine reviewer approval is hash-bound to that exact version.
5. After a controlled release, the system verifies the live URL, metadata, canonical, sitemap, robots state, schema, source links, and inbound links. The release is eligible for rollback when the exact transaction or live checks fail.

Evidence and originality standard

Recovery candidates must add concrete information gain: a useful example, decision rule, worked demonstration, original tool or asset, or a clearer evidence-based answer to the reader’s task. Links must support the nearby material claim. A bibliography, article length, or SEO score alone is not a quality signal.

AI Assistance

AI may assist with research organization and drafting a private candidate. AI output is not treated as a source, an author, firsthand experience, or proof of accuracy. Editorial policy forbids invented experience, credentials, quotations, reviewers, studies, or test results.

Authors and reviewers

FreeBrain is responsible for each page’s publishing and editorial decision. WordPress account assignment does not establish individual authorship, and older archive pages were not all individually written or reviewed by the site owner. A page is described as professionally reviewed only when it displays a named reviewer and version-bound review date. See the reviewer directory.

Dates and corrections

A WordPress modified date is metadata, not automatically a review date. Scanning, scoring, or queuing a page does not justify a freshness claim. A substantive recovery update changes the public date only after the exact revised bytes pass the controlled release and live-verification workflow.

Corrections should be sent through the contact page. Health-related material is educational and subject to the medical disclaimer.