About Oxuz

What we publish

Oxuz consolidates public headlines from more than 100 recognized international broadcasters and wire agencies into a single, continuously updated feed and, through its Editor's Desk, publishes original opinion and legal commentary by named authors. Aggregated headlines link to their originating publishers and are presented for awareness rather than endorsement; original Oxuz commentary is labeled as such.

Ownership & funding

Oxuz is published by Oxuz, Inc., a Delaware corporation founded and led by Kian E. Jamasbi. It is independently owned and self-funded, and receives no funding, direction, or editorial input from any government, political party, campaign, or foreign principal. Opinion published under the Editor's Desk reflects the views of its named authors.

Sourcing & methodology

A source qualifies on two tests: it must be institutionally recognized, a member of one of the world's regional broadcasting unions, or a wire agency of record, and lawfully and independently accessible, so Oxuz can retrieve its own public feed without any relationship to the source. Every candidate also passes a sanctions-and-independence screen before any editorial judgment. Oxuz links to and extracts headline metadata rather than republishing full articles, translates foreign-language headlines into English, and labels sources by ownership and control.

Where reporting comes from a sanctioned jurisdiction, Oxuz relies on the IEEPA informational-materials exemption (the Berman Amendment, as amended by the Free Trade in Ideas Act of 1994), which permits the cross-border flow of already-published news. Consistent with its limits, Oxuz keeps no payment, service, or contractual relationship with any sanctioned party and excludes outright any outlet that is itself an OFAC-listed blocked person.

Observation, not republication

Oxuz continuously polls more than a hundred public news feeds — independent outlets, public broadcasters, commercial media, and state-affiliated media — plus the GDELT Project’s open monitoring stream. For every item, Oxuz records two separate times. The publisher’s date is whatever the outlet declared, and outlets backdate, post-date, and silently revise those stamps. The observed time is when the item first appeared on the Oxuz wire; it is ours, cannot be revised by anyone else, and is what orders the wire and anchors event records. Where a page shows a publisher’s date, it is labeled as the publisher’s; we never present one as the other.

Corroboration & event records

Every few minutes, Oxuz clusters the recent wire: near-duplicate headlines about the same development, reported by different outlets, collapse into one event. The number of distinct outlets in a cluster is the corroboration count shown across the site (“7 outlets”). It counts observed reporting, nothing more: syndicated copies of one agency story still originate from one newsroom, and a count is not a verification of the underlying facts. Corroboration only ever accumulates — later re-clustering can add outlets but never remove them. A qualifying event receives a permanent identifier (OXZ-YYYY-MM-DD-NNNN, the UTC date Oxuz first observed it plus a sequence number) and a permanent page listing every corroborating outlet; the identifier and first-observed time are frozen at creation, which is what makes records citable. The daily Oxuz Brief is built from the same clustering, scoped to the day’s conflict-and-security wire; its title is always a real headline from the wire, never a machine-composed one, and a dated brief is a frozen record of the day as observed. The homepage situation map shows where the conflict news is concentrated — place mentions weighted by breadth of distinct sources — an approximation of attention, labeled as such, not a plot of verified incidents.

AI & automation

Oxuz uses AI (Mistral) in three narrow, disclosed ways, always under this editorial policy and never to write news. First, foreign-language headlines are machine-translated into English; translated headlines carry an “auto-translated” label with a one-click toggle back to the original text. Second, the top story on the front page is selected algorithmically from the live wire against a published editorial standard (standalone, declarative, non-editorialized headlines), with subscriber likes as one input; the same selection is what Oxuz shares to its social accounts. Third, the daily Oxuz Brief and well-corroborated event records include short summaries drafted by AI strictly from the sourced reporting they cite, with the full source list always published beside them. These surfaces are generated and published by this disclosed automated process, under the standing editorial responsibility of the Editor-in-Chief, who sets its rules, monitors its output, and corrects it when it errs. AI never invents sources, never adds facts beyond the cited reporting, and every AI-assisted surface says so where it appears.

Corrections

We correct material errors. If you believe an attribution, source label, or headline translation is incorrect, write to us at the address below describing the item and the correction you believe is needed. We review correction requests promptly and update source labeling or attribution as warranted.

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