Kiongos Trends Policies and Standards

Diversity Policy

Kiongos Trends is a neutral, unbiased news website that tries to deliver news and information under the interest of the public and its audience. Our sole intention is to educate, entertain and inform our audience about everything trending. We do not represent any government entity or organization. Therefore, our authors have creative freedom and maintain their journalistic integrity.

Our guidelines are published here to show our audience full transparency.

Hate speech and bullying

Kiongos Trends does not post content that incites hatred or discriminates against people often demographic community, whether on the basis of gender identity, race, religion, disability, nationality or sexual orientation.
Our content should not intimidate, bully or harass any individual.

Kiongos.com editorial standards and ethics

Kiongos Trends upholds the highest editorial standards and seeks to improve these standards.
Our posts are generated from our audience and the public’s interest.
Our reporting of news follows fair coverage and accuracy without any bias.
Our experts provide professional judgement and rational analysis.
We work independently and avoid organizations or entities that can compromise our integrity.
We publish content to entertain and educate our audience who follow our site and strive to avoid conflict of interest wherever and whenever possible. If we publish a post where conflict of interest might arise, we add a disclaimer.

Safety and inappropriate content

Kiongos Trends will not post articles that advocate for violence or promote self-harm.
We will not publish any post containing child sexual abuse, nonconsensual sexual themes, or any adult themes within family content.
We will not post content that contains unwanted software or malicious links.
Kiongos Trends will not post content that infringes on the legal rights of other parties or promote any illegal activity.

Health Mandatory Disclaimer

The Kiongos app is for informational purposes only and is not a medical device. It does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of a physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.

Verification / Fact Checking Policy

We pride ourselves in ensuring that our reporting for those facts and opinions seek to bring in clear understanding of the truth.

We use first-hand sources when collecting information, validate the authenticity of acquired materials, weigh, interpret and contextualize any claims.

Unnamed Sources Policy

Kiongos Trends includes name of sources for information published in most cases.
We provide attribution through mentioning names, adding links and other means to tell the audience about source of information.
Kiongos Trends might withhold the names of confidential sources in certain contexts if mentioning them might negatively impact their livelihood.
We also adhere to legal rights of the editors, reporters and confidential sources.

Copyright

Kiongos Trends content will not infringe or violate the rights of any third-parties. These includes copyright, trademarks or proprietary rights. We respect protection of personal information and we will consider the balance between one’s privacy and our right to broadcast information that is of public interest. We can only justify it by indicating that the intrusion is outweighed by public interest.

We balance one’s privacy against public interest when reporting stories that involve human misery and distress, and upholds human dignity while doing it.

If the content featured individuals who personally posted the used material on social media, their right to privacy may be reduced because in such cases their privacy controls have not been used.

The Corrections policy

In case of an error, the editorial team will correct it as swiftly as possible. The correction may be a meek edit to the post or may comprise of an editor’s message explaining the correction.

Actionable Feedback Policy

Kiongos Trends is always keen to acknowledge committed mistakes and we try to learn from those.

In case of a proposal, criticism or compliment, you can contact Kiongos.com at [email protected] and we will reply as soon as possible.