Methodology

ByteHerald is an independent tech magazine. This page explains how we check a story before we publish it, so a reader can judge our work and catch our mistakes.

Primary sources first

We trace every news claim to the originator where one exists: a company filing, a product document, a research paper, a court record, or a direct statement. We link that first-party source beside the claim. Aggregator rewrites are never our only source for a factual claim. When a number comes from a filing or a study, we name the document and the period it covers.

Numbers carry their method

A number in a ByteHerald article should arrive with its unit, its date, and its source in the same passage. Where a sample or a method matters, we state it: how many people, documents, designs, or variants were involved, over what period, and what was measured. Where a figure is an estimate, a tally built by adding separate disclosures, or one analyst's calculation, we say so, and we say what would change it. We do not present a forecast as a fact, and we do not make guaranteed-return or absolute-safety claims.

Original data, stated limits

Our articles aim to add something no rewrite has: a comparison table, a reconciliation of conflicting totals, a timeline, a chart built from disclosed figures, or a checklist a reader can apply. Every chart carries its source in its footer. Where sources conflict, we show the conflict instead of picking the tidier number. Where a result is early, preclinical, or unreplicated, we say so in the article, not only in a footnote.

Images are inspected before publication

Every chart, diagram, and hero image is opened at full size and inspected before it is published, for overlapping or cut-off text, legibility at the blog's display width, and a clean, professional look. Images that fail are rebuilt and re-inspected. Charts carry ByteHerald branding and a source line only in their footer, never as text overlaid on the data. Charts and diagrams published by ByteHerald may be reused with credit to ByteHerald and a link to the article they came from.

Developing stories and corrections

When a covered story develops or a fact changes, we update the original article with a dated update note, or publish a follow-up that links back to the original and add a forward link from the original to the follow-up. We do not publish a competing post on the same angle, and we do not leave a stale fact standing silently. Corrections to published articles are logged publicly on our Corrections Log, with the article, what changed, and when.

What this page does not promise

This methodology describes our process, not a guarantee that any single article is error free. If you find an error, tell us through the Contact page with the article, the statement in dispute, and a reliable source that supports the concern. We will check it, correct it visibly where it is wrong, and log the correction.

By ByteHerald Staff. This page was created on October 28, 2026, as part of ByteHerald's transparency standards, and it will be updated when our verification process changes.