IFCN Principle 3 · Funding & Organization Transparency
Organization & Transparency
ANN Verify publishes full details of its organizational structure, ownership, funding sources, and editorial governance. We hold ourselves to the same standard of transparency we apply to others.
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Organization Structure
ANN Verify is the primary fact-checking product of AI News Network — an independently operated media technology company registered in Singapore. The platform operates editorially and financially independent from any government, political party, or single corporate entity.
LEGAL ENTITY
AI News Network Pte. Ltd.
Registered in Singapore
ESTABLISHED
2026
Beta launch: March 31, 2026
PRIMARY PRODUCT
ANN Verify (annverify.ai)
AI-powered fact-checking platform
ECOSYSTEM
ANN Verify · AI Growth OS · ONPROOF
Three independently operated products
JURISDICTION
Singapore
Global audience · English-language
IP STATUS
3 Patents Pending
KIPO 2026.02.19 · PCT in progress
EDITORIAL INDEPENDENCE DECLARATION
✓ANN Verify operates as an editorially independent fact-checking platform. No investor, funder, advertiser, or external stakeholder has any influence over the verdicts, scores, or editorial conclusions published on this platform.
✓Editorial decisions — which claims to check, how to score them, what verdict to assign — are made solely by ANN Verify's editorial team based on evidence and our published methodology.
✓ANN Verify does not accept requests from any individual or organization to fact-check specific claims on their behalf.
✓ANN Verify's editorial output is not controlled by the state, a political party, or a politician. We do not receive funding from political parties or government bodies for our editorial operations.
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Funding & Revenue
ANN Verify publishes a complete account of its current and planned revenue sources. Funders do not receive any influence over our editorial process in exchange for their support.
| SOURCE | TYPE | STATUS | EDITORIAL INFLUENCE |
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| Founder Self-Funding | Equity / Bootstrap | ACTIVE | None |
| API Licensing (B2B) | Product Revenue | PLANNED | None |
| Subscription Plans | Consumer Revenue | PLANNED | None |
| Contextual Advertising | Ad Revenue | PLANNED | None — strict editorial wall |
| Government Grants | Public Funding | NOT ACCEPTED | N/A — excluded by policy |
| Political Party Funding | Political | NOT ACCEPTED | N/A — excluded by policy |
"Funders and advertisers do not receive editorial access, preferential fact-check treatment, or advance notice of verdicts. The separation between commercial operations and editorial judgment is absolute."
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Team & Decision-Making Structure
ANN Verify is led by a small founding team. Editorial authority rests with the editorial function. Commercial and technical decisions are made separately from editorial decisions, with a clear firewall between the two domains.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Founder & ED
Overall strategic direction and organizational leadership. Sets policy, does not override individual verdict decisions.
EDITORIAL TEAM
Fact-Check Editors
Reviews AI analyses, applies editorial judgment, escalates contested verdicts, manages corrections. Operates independently of commercial functions.
TECHNOLOGY
Engineering
Maintains the 7-layer AI pipeline, Cloudflare Worker infrastructure, Firebase backend. Does not participate in editorial decisions.
INNOVATION
Patent Inventors
Park Minwoo · Kim Baekjun. Inventors of the core IP: 7-layer fact-check architecture, viral priority scheduler, TSL time-series tracking.
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Nonpartisanship Policy
ANN Verify does not advocate for any political position, party, ideology, or policy outcome. Our fact-checking applies the same standard to every claim regardless of who makes it.
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Equal Treatment
Claims from politicians, media outlets, or institutions of any political alignment are evaluated using identical criteria.
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Evidence-Only Verdicts
Verdicts are determined exclusively by evidence quality, source credibility, and logical consistency. Political preference is not a factor.
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Geographic Balance
Fact-checks cover global topics — not concentrated in any single country or regional perspective.
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No Advocacy
ANN Verify does not take policy positions on the issues it fact-checks. We report on factual accuracy — not whether a policy is good or bad.
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ANN Token & Editorial Independence
AI News Network is developing the ANN Token as a utility mechanism for platform participation and user incentives. The following declaration ensures no ambiguity about its relationship to editorial operations.
ANN Token Declaration
UTILITY TOKENThe ANN Token is a utility token designed to incentivize platform participation, reward contributors, and power community governance features within the ANN ecosystem.
What the ANN Token is NOT:
- ANN Token does not represent equity, ownership, or a financial claim on AI News Network Pte. Ltd.
- ANN Token holders do not have any influence over fact-check verdicts, editorial decisions, or content moderation.
- Token revenue does not create any dependency or obligation toward token holders in ANN Verify's editorial operations.
- Token launch timing and mechanisms are commercial decisions made separately from editorial governance.
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Contact & Accountability
We are reachable for questions about our organization, funding, methodology, or editorial decisions.