Ethics

Fronts is privately owned and operated by Fulcrum Enterprises s.r.o. Editorial decisions — what we cover, how we cover it, and what we publish — are made by our editorial team alone.

We accept no funding from political parties, advocacy groups, lobbying organizations, governments, or ideologically motivated donors. Reader subscriptions and the audience support of our affiliated channels fund the work.

Advertisers, subscribers, and commercial partners have no role in approving or reviewing what we publish.

Where contributors hold positions in governments, militaries, NGOs, research institutions, or other bodies relevant to a piece, we disclose those affiliations alongside the work.

We do not accept gifts, sponsored trips, paid placements, or other compensation from the subjects of our reporting. Where a writer has a financial holding or close personal relationship with a subject of coverage that cannot be resolved through disclosure, we reassign the piece.

Our analysis is grounded in primary sources wherever possible: government documents, court records, official statements, on-the-record interviews, and verified open-source material. Where we rely on secondary reporting, we link to it.

Fronts does not generally use anonymous sources. In rare cases where senior officials provide background information, we identify them by level and affiliation — for example, "a senior Western official" — and only when they have direct knowledge of what they describe. We do not use anonymous sources to make accusations against named individuals or organizations.

Fronts strictly prohibits the publication of AI-written work and bans the direct use of AI to create articles, scripts, or analytical content. We also ban the use of AI-summarized information to replace primary research, sourcing, or analytical judgment.

We permit the responsible use of AI for mechanical tasks that do not affect editorial substance — digital proofreaders, transcription tools, data aggregation utilities. Any AI assistance used in producing a Fronts article is reviewed by a human editor, and we will note AI involvement on any piece where it is material to the article's content.

Plagiarism is prohibited at Fronts, across all content. We do not publish material drawn from another source without proper attribution, and we treat plagiarism as grounds for the immediate end of a contributor relationship. All impacted work is retracted.

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