How we check our stories.

1. Where the stories come from

QuietGuard keeps scam and child-safety watch lists: an ongoing scan of news reports about scams and child safety, kept separately for each language. Each report found is summarised and scored. Once a day we take the best-scored report from the last few days that we have not written about before.

We then download the original report itself, so that the note rests on what the publisher actually wrote, not only on our scan's summary. If the original page can't be read, the note is written from the scan's summary alone, kept short and cautious, and flagged for a closer look by our team.

2. The rules every note follows

Each note is drafted with the help of an AI writing assistant working under fixed rules:

• Every fact, number and date must come from the original report. Nothing is added from elsewhere; if a detail is uncertain, it is left out.
• The note is written in our own words. Short quotes, under 15 words, are allowed only for an official's advice, in quotation marks and attributed.
• No names of victims or private people, and no details that could identify them.
• Nobody is called a scammer or criminal unless an official source (police, court, regulator or government agency) says so in the report, and then we say who said it.
• Calm, plain language: no exclamation marks, no fear words, no clickbait, and never mocking the people who were targeted.
• Advice is general good practice that follows from the story, such as hanging up and calling back on a number you look up yourself, or talking it over with family.
• Our own apps are mentioned only with true facts, at most twice, and honestly about their limits. We never claim an app stops every scam.

3. The automatic checks

Before a note can be published, a program checks the draft. A note is stopped if:

• any number in it (in the headline, summary, short answers or text) does not appear in the original report or the scan's summary of it;
• it uses sensational words from our banned list (for example "shocking", "terrifying" or "nightmare");
• it contains an exclamation mark;
• it is too short or too long;
• it names our apps more than twice in the text, or names them in the short answers at the top;
• it overclaims what an app can do (for example "guarantee", "100%" or "blocks all scams");
• one of its required parts is missing: what happened, the warning signs, and what families can do.

A draft that fails is rewritten once with the problems listed. If it fails again, we try another story, and if none passes, there is simply no note that day. Notes that pass are published automatically. Anything the checks flag for a closer look, such as an original report we could not read or a mention of money near an app's name, is recorded for our team to review.

The short versions of each story shown on quietguard.io pass similar checks: numbers only from the source, calm wording, no overclaiming, a set length, and our app named only in its own clearly separate line.

4. The original report is always linked

Every note names the publisher it is based on and links the original report, both under the headline and in the "Original report" box beside the text, so you can always read the full story at its source. Our weekly round-up adds no new facts: it only looks back at that week's notes and links each one.

5. Corrections

If you spot a mistake, or a detail that should not be there, please write to [email protected]. We will check it against the original report and correct or remove the note.

Insights notes are published by the QuietGuard Insights team at Controlled Systems Group. Last updated: 9 October 2026.