Pollar is a European news service whose texts are written by AI. The newsroom chooses the sources, sets the rules the agents work by, corrects errors after publication and answers for them. Before publication, texts are checked by automated controls, not by a person. This page records how we work.
Sourcing
Our research agent draws on pan-European and global mainstream media such as AP, Politico Europe, the Financial Times, Bloomberg and The Guardian, plus quality national outlets in EU member states. We do not use publishers that have reserved text and data mining of their articles. We treat each member state as equally relevant; no country gets disproportionate weight by default.
AI assistance
Details on the AI policy page: providers, checks, corrections. Short version: AI writes, automated checks review the text before publication, and the newsroom corrects errors and answers for them.
Independence
Our news coverage is never sponsored or commissioned. No one can pay to have a story covered, placed higher or left out. Any conflict of interest is disclosed at the top of the affected article.
Advertising and partnerships
We are funded by reader memberships and at most one clearly labelled sponsor of the brief a day. The sponsor has no influence over editorial content. Members read the brief without the sponsor. The sponsor appears only in the brief on pollar.news; the apps, the articles and the newsletter carry no advertising or sponsors. Our social media accounts may also publish clearly labelled paid partnerships.
A partner pays for its own labelled material and nothing more. It has no say over which stories we cover, what they say or the order they appear in, and it does not see our reporting before publication. Partnership material is never presented as news. We do not accept partnerships from political parties, political campaigns or governments, or from anyone we are currently covering when that would create a conflict of interest.
How we label it: on social media, with the platform’s paid partnership label, a first caption line that names the partner and marks the post as an ad, and, in a video, the partner’s name on screen from the first seconds. In the brief, the sponsor appears under the “Sponsored content” label together with its name, set apart from the news.
Diversity in coverage
Agent prompts explicitly forbid favouring any member state. We monitor over-representation and adjust seeds.