How we publish.

Traditional news software treats an article as the atomic unit, which means a single event spawns multiple competing articles that the reader is left to reconcile. CERAP rejects this model.

In CERAP, the atomic unit is the Story — a single canonical destination that integrates everything we know about one event. Reporters and editors contribute blocks into a Story; they do not create competing articles.

When an event develops, the Story updates in place. The URL never changes. The editorial trail (what changed, when, by whom) is preserved in our update log.

Every Story is structured for progressive disclosure:

• Layer 0 — Headline + 15-second summary. Self-sufficient. Understandable cold, with zero prior context.
• Layer 1 — Key points. The essentials for the reader who won’t read further.
• Layer 2 — Main story. The narrative built from modular blocks.
• Layer 3 — Perspectives, explainers, why it matters.
• Layer 4 — Sources, timeline, fact-checks.

Depth is opt-in. A reader who has 15 seconds should still leave oriented, not confused.

Every News or Analysis Story carries labelled perspectives, drawn from a controlled vocabulary: Government, Opposition, Expert, Public, Industry, Affected, and Verified Facts.

Each perspective is attributed to a named source or, in the case of public reaction, to an honest aggregation. Order does not imply endorsement. The “Verified Facts” perspective is visually distinct from opinion perspectives because we do not conflate the two.

A News or Analysis Story without at least two distinct perspective labels does not publish. This is enforced by our content management system before the publish action is even available.

Every claim of fact is traceable to a source. Where claims are disputed or politically charged, we publish a dedicated Fact Check block with one of four verdicts: True, Misleading, False, or Unverified — accompanied by our reasoning and the sources used to reach it.

Verdicts are public and editorial. They never originate from AI alone. They are written or approved by a named editor with fact-checking authority.

When a story evolves — a clarifying statement, a new piece of evidence, a correction — we update the existing Story in place. We mark it as “updating” while it is being revised, and an “Updated” pill surfaces it back into Latest.

We do not spin off duplicate articles on the same event. Continuation that opens a genuinely new chapter (e.g., an inquiry into the original event) becomes a follow-up Story explicitly linked to the parent.

When we get something wrong, we say so on the Story itself. Significant corrections are noted at the top with what was changed, when, and why. Silent edits to factual claims are forbidden.

If you have spotted an error or have evidence that contradicts our reporting, please email corrections@cerap.ai with the Story URL and the specific paragraph. We take every correction request seriously.

CERAP is owned by Samajaya Marketing Sdn Bhd, an independent Malaysian company. We accept no political party funding, no religious institution funding, and no foreign government funding. Commercial relationships (sponsorships, partnerships) are disclosed at the point of any content they touch.

Editorial decisions are made by named editors. Reporters do not clear stories with subjects or sources prior to publication. Pre-publication review of quotations is permitted only for accuracy of the quotation itself, never for framing.

We deliberately reject the engagement patterns that have made much of the modern news experience anxious. Specifically:

• No infinite scroll. Our Latest stream ends with an explicit “you’re caught up” divider.
• No autoplay video.
• No rage notifications. We notify on substance, not novelty.
• Trending is quality-gated, not virality-gated.
• We never use red as a fill or background — only as an editorial signal.