News Factory · Banana Intelligence

Corrections and opt-out

News Factory is the shared newsroom behind Banana Intelligence's news apps. If we got a fact wrong, or you want us to stop reading your site, tell us here.

What we do with the news

• We read headlines and links from public news feeds to see which stories many outlets are covering.
• For the biggest stories, we may read the article to check a fact. We respect each site's robots.txt.
• We write every fact in our own words and link to the outlet it came from.
• We do not republish articles. We keep only a short quoted passage as proof of each fact.

Report a wrong fact

Send the link to the story or fact, what is wrong, and a source that shows the right answer.

We check it against the source. If we were wrong, we fix the fact or remove it. The corrected story replaces the old one for every app that reads our feed at its next update, usually within the hour.

Ask us to stop reading your site

Write from an address at your publication's domain and name the site. On our side:

• We stop reading your articles within one day of reading your message.
• At our next update, we remove your outlet as a source from the stories we serve.
• We reply to confirm. If you want us back, write again and we will turn it back on.

Our crawlers

Each one names this inbox in its user agent:

• NewsFactoryZeitgeist reads public news feeds.
• NewsFactoryFacts reads an article to check a fact. It obeys robots.txt.
• NewsFactoryPulse reads public trend data.