About Zeitline
Zeitline covers the stories people are actively searching for, and explains what is actually known about them. Coverage is produced by an automated pipeline with machine assistance — we say so here, on every relevant page, and in the machine-readable data search engines read.
What we publish
We watch public trend data to find what people are searching for right now, gather what established outlets have reported, and write a plain summary of it. Articles run from short briefs to longer explainers depending on how much the reporting actually supports — we would rather publish three honest paragraphs than pad a thin story to look substantial.
We do not break news. Every factual claim originates with a named outlet, and where a story is thin or contested we say so in the article itself rather than smoothing it over.
How it is made
There is no newsroom. No reporter attends events or conducts interviews for this site. Articles are assembled from published reporting by an automated pipeline and written with the help of language models, then checked against a set of rules that refuse to publish anything unsourced, duplicated, or without something to say.
The editorial policy describes the sourcing rules, the corroboration thresholds and the corrections process in detail, including the cases where we deliberately publish a single-source story and mark it as unverified.
Photographs come from Wikimedia Commons, Openverse and comparable free libraries under licences that permit reuse. We do not use AI-generated imagery.
Independence and funding
Zeitline is an independent publication. It carries advertising, which is served by third parties and has no influence on what we cover or how we cover it — nobody selling an ad has any input into the pipeline that selects or writes stories.
We publish no sponsored posts, no paid placements and no affiliate links.
Getting in touch
Corrections, rights enquiries and anything else: corrections@zeitline.news. More detail on the contact page.