Policy
Last reviewed: 2026-09-19. First published on that date.
Deceit writes about some of the companies whose tools it uses and whose platforms carry its work. This page lists those companies, sets the terms for any money Deceit takes, and says how a piece about one of them is disclosed. The standard is the one in the Society of Professional Journalists' code of ethics: "Avoid conflicts of interest, real or perceived. Disclose unavoidable conflicts."
Checked 2026-09-19. The list covers every company whose tools make what Deceit publishes, that hosts it, or that carries it to readers.
Also used, for services around the work: Cloudflare for DNS, Resend for transactional email, and Ko-fi for reader donations.
Open-source software run locally, such as the Kokoro voice model, involves no company relationship and is not listed.
Readers give through Ko-fi. A donation is a gift: it buys nothing, it can be anonymous, and one that arrives with a condition is returned.
Deceit takes no sponsorship, advertising or affiliate money. If that changes, the rules below apply from the first payment and the sponsor joins the list above. A client who pays for commissioned work or a license is treated as a sponsor.
A piece about a listed company carries a disclosure note above the text. The note names the relationship and links here. It goes on favorable and critical pieces alike.
A company counts as a subject when it, its products or its leaders are named in the headline or summary, have a section of the piece, or are central to its verdict or argument. A passing mention carries no note: the platform where a post circulated, a company named in a list, a single figure it published. When the call is close, the note goes on.
The piece is sourced and checked like any other. Where a claim rests on the company's own account of itself, the piece says so.
The site's build refuses a piece that names a listed company in its headline, summary or tags and has neither a note nor a recorded review saying the mention is only a venue or passing.
When Deceit starts relying on a company, every published piece about that company gets the note in the same update that adds it here. When a relationship ends, the company stays on the list with the end date for as long as anything made with its tools is still published.
If a sponsor becomes a subject, the piece runs on its normal schedule with the note, and the sponsorship is not renewed.
A piece that judges something Deceit does itself, such as illustrating with AI image tools or drafting with a model, links to the AI policy.
On the piece and on this page. The note on a piece is short, because a reader who arrives from a shared link may never see this page. This page holds the full list, the date it was checked, and the rules. The AI policy, the editorial policy, the About page and the Support page link here.
Deceit is one person. A piece about a listed company cannot be reassigned to someone free of the relationship, so the note is the whole remedy. Every piece lists its sources, and a reader who wants more distance than a note gives can start there.
The list depends on the project reporting its own relationships. Where the sites are hosted and which platforms carry them can be checked from outside. The other entries cannot, so every change to this page is dated.