Pollar is an AI-assisted European news outlet. Human editors curate the topical threads, set the editorial frame, and review agent output. This page records how we work.
Sourcing
Our research agent draws from pan-European and global mainstream media: Reuters, Politico Europe, EUobserver, FT, Bloomberg, plus quality national outlets in EU member states. We treat each member state as equally relevant; no country gets disproportionate weight by default.
AI assistance
See the AI policy page for models, prompts, and oversight. Short version: agents draft, humans edit, humans take responsibility.
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
There is no advertising in the Pollar app or on our website, with one exception: the daily brief or the newsletter may carry a single, clearly labelled sponsor. Members see the brief without the sponsor. 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 and the newsletter, the sponsor appears under the “Sponsored” label, set apart from the news.
Diversity in coverage
Agent prompts explicitly forbid favouring any member state. We monitor over-representation and adjust seeds.