# Trusted sources

Every docket entry needs at least one link from the four tiers below. Anything on the "not accepted" list does not go in the docket at all, even as an extra link. If the only coverage of something is on that list, the entry waits.

## Tier 1: primary documents

The thing itself. Always preferred, and always added alongside press coverage when one exists.

- **Statements from the companies responsible or affected.** Press releases, blog posts, incident reports, after-action reports, technical timelines, and threat reports from the company that built the model or the company that was harmed. These are that party's own account and the entry's status should say so, but the document itself is the best record of what the company admits.
- **Court filings and rulings.** PACER, CourtListener, state court portals, and the filed complaint or order itself when counsel hosts the PDF.
- **Filing announcements from counsel or parties.** A press release announcing a suit was filed, from the plaintiffs' firm or the plaintiffs themselves. The firm's intake or marketing page is not this.
- **Regulator and prosecutor announcements.** Ofcom, the European Commission, the Irish Data Protection Commission, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, CNIL, the ICO, the US Department of Justice, state attorneys general, the Paris prosecutor's office, and their counterparts.
- **Legislative letters and hearing records.** House and Senate committee sites and their equivalents abroad.
- **Research reports from named organizations,** linked directly: the Center for Countering Digital Hate, METR, MITRE ATT&CK, university labs.

## Tier 2: wire services and papers of record

- Reuters, Associated Press, Bloomberg, Agence France-Presse
- The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The San Francisco Standard
- BBC, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Politico

## Tier 3: national broadcast and general news

- CNN, NBC News, CBS News, ABC News, NPR, PBS NewsHour, CNBC, Fox News
- Axios, TIME, Fortune, Forbes staff reporting, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, The New Republic
- Al Jazeera, Euronews, France 24, Deutsche Welle, CBC, The Globe and Mail
- The local outlet of record for the jurisdiction: KQED, CBS Baltimore, The Commercial Appeal, and the like

## Tier 4: technology, legal, and policy press

- Technology: The Verge, TechCrunch, Wired, Ars Technica, The Register, 404 Media, The Information, MIT Technology Review, Platformer, CyberScoop, The Record, Cybersecurity Dive, Defense One, The Hacker News, Gizmodo, Engadget, TNW, Fast Company, TechRadar
- Legal: Bloomberg Law, Law360, Courthouse News Service, JURIST, MLex, IPWatchdog, Daily Journal, Claims Journal
- Policy: TechPolicy.Press, Lawfare, EDRi
- Entertainment and music trade: Deadline, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Music Business Worldwide
- Aggregated wire copy on Yahoo, MSN, or a local station is acceptable when the byline is Reuters, AP, or Bloomberg. Link the original when you can.

## Not accepted

These do not appear in the docket. Not as the main source, not as an extra link.

- Law-firm intake, case-overview, or marketing pages. Link the complaint or the filing announcement instead.
- Lead-generation lawsuit sites: ClassAction.org, Top Class Actions, ConsumerNotice, Lawsuit Informer, Open Class Actions, and similar.
- SEO and rewrite sites: Tech Times, PPC Land, WinBuzzer, Memeburn, The Rundown, and similar.
- Law-firm client alerts and knowledge articles from firms not involved in the case.
- Blogs, Substack, Medium, and personal sites, unless the author is a direct participant in the event and the post is their account of it.
- Wikipedia, Grokipedia, and other wikis.
- Social media posts and video, unless the post is itself the incident.
- Anonymous or unbylined aggregators.

## Why it matters

The site's headline is an opinion. The docket under it has to survive a hostile reader. A single weak link on an entry gives the subject a way to dismiss the whole board.