Content sources
Where Infolitico's source events come from: a curated public feed diet with verified publisher URLs, and how events are admitted.
Infolitico sources its stories from a curated diet of public feeds. The feed list is deliberate: a small set of trusted, real-world news sources, trimmed and expanded over time based on source-health review.
The feed diet
The pipeline ingests public RSS/Atom feeds from a curated set of sources. The diet is intentionally limited — it is a morning devotional's news cycle, not a fire hose. Feed health is monitored, and source-health review happens before any targeted direct-source expansion.
Admission into the pipeline
An event is admitted only when it carries real factual evidence:
- The source summary must be nonempty and more than the headline repeated.
- Feed chrome (such as "submitted by …", link lists, or comment counts) is never promoted into factual evidence.
- Rows without sufficient evidence are rejected before any model work, so junk rows never consume a generation slot.
Discovery URLs and verified publisher URLs
The pipeline distinguishes between discovery URLs (where an event was found) and verified publisher URLs (the canonical article location). Provenance is carried through the pipeline so a published story's source is traceable.
The reader feed is separate from ingestion
The public reader feed on the site is a publishing surface, not an ingestion source. Ingestion and publishing are deliberately separate paths.