Academics conducting AI fact-checking research in real newsroom contexts face dual ethics requirements: institutional research ethics (IRB or equivalent) and journalism ethics (source protection, editorial independence, public interest). Omniscient AI's research programme provides a methodology that has been designed to satisfy both requirements — using anonymised production data that doesn't require individual journalist consent while meeting research ethics standards for data handling.
Ethics-Compliant Research Design
Research using Omniscient AI data can be designed to satisfy media ethics standards by: using only publicly published content (no access to unpublished drafts or source communications), working with anonymised data that doesn't identify individual journalists or publications, publishing methodology in sufficient detail for replication (meeting transparency standards for both research and journalism), and ensuring findings that could affect a publication's reputation are communicated to the publication before academic publication (an ethics standard consistent with investigative journalism norms).