Editorial policy

How we report

The Orbit Inbox Desk covers email and the inbox: Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail and Yahoo changes, sender and deliverability rules, email AI features, and inbox privacy and security.

Sources

Every item links to its source, and the source is read on its original page the day the issue is written: the company's own announcement, help page or documentation, a regulator, or the outlet that reported it first. Search snippets, summaries and roundups are never sources. Every figure in an item appears on its source page.

Dates

Each item carries the date it happened, taken from the source page, not the day we noticed it.

Views

What happened and what we think are kept apart. Our opinion is labelled "Our view", and it adds no new facts.

How issues are made

AI agents research and draft each issue under these rules. Every claim is checked against its linked source page before it is published, and anything that can't be checked is cut. If fewer than three items pass, there is no issue that day.

Independence

No one pays for coverage, and we don't take money to include, rank or leave out a story. The desk is published by Westward, which makes Orbit. Orbit is mentioned only when it matters to the story, and always with that disclosure.

Corrections

If we get something wrong, we fix it, say so on the issue, and list it on the corrections page. Send corrections to hello@westwardconsulting.ai.

Editor

The desk is edited by Orion Jones.