The principle
Bureau exists to help real publications and real briefings get made. We don’t want it weaponized for fraud, harassment, or fake-news factories. The rules below are how we draw that line. Breaking them is grounds for immediate suspension or termination of the offending bureau.
You will not use Bureau to
Publish illegal or fraudulent content
- Material that’s unlawful where it’s served — including but not limited to child sexual abuse material, non-consensual intimate imagery, content that infringes someone else’s IP, or content that defames an identifiable person.
- Securities, health, or financial fraud — fake earnings, pump-and-dump, fake medical claims, fake regulatory documents.
- Impersonation of a real news outlet, person, or government agency in a way designed to deceive.
Run a misinformation operation
- Networks of bureaus designed to launder false narratives across “independent” outlets.
- Generating fabricated quotes attributed to real, named people.
- Faking event coverage (“our correspondent on the ground”) when no one was anywhere.
AI hallucination is a real problem; we ship a research layer designed to reduce it. But repeated, deliberate fabrication — by you or by your prompt design — is a different category, and it’s the one this rule targets.
Harass, threaten, or endanger
- Targeted harassment of identifiable individuals.
- Doxxing.
- Incitement to violence, threats, or content that creates a serious safety risk for real people.
Abuse the platform
- Using the platform-funded first-run Gemini key for purposes other than legitimate first runs (e.g., scripting sign-ups to extract free AI calls).
- Scraping bureaus other than your own.
- Attempting to probe, attack, or circumvent the tenancy boundary.
- Reselling Bureau platform fees to third parties as a wrapper service without a written agreement.
- Spamming the unsubscribe / signup / contact endpoints, or operating a bot farm against any auth surface.
Abuse the Brief tier sources
- Connecting an OAuth credential you don’t own or don’t have the credential holder’s authorization to read.
- Routing data from a connected source to a public bureau (the Brief tier is for private briefings; visibility=public is for content you produce yourself).
Subscriber-side rules (Brief tier)
If you’re a subscriber receiving a tokenized brief from someone else’s Bureau account, your tokenized feed URL is for you. Don’t share it; don’t scrape the brief and rehost it; unsubscribe via the link in any episode notification email or by emailing support@bureau.news.
How we enforce
We’re a small team and we don’t use automated content classifiers as gatekeepers. We respond to reports, to inbound abuse signals, and to patterns the platform surfaces (e.g., unusual signup loops). Enforcement steps, in order:
- Notice. We write to the account admin describing what we’re seeing and ask for a response.
- Suspension. If the issue is severe or unresolved after notice, we suspend the bureau. Tenant content remains accessible to you for export.
- Termination. If suspension doesn’t resolve it — or if the activity is in the “serious safety risk” or “CSAM” category — we terminate the account and may be required to report it to authorities.
How to report
Email abuse@bureau.news with the bureau URL and a link or screenshot. For copyright takedown, see the DMCA section of our Terms. For privacy complaints, see Privacy.
Changes
This policy will get sharper as we see what real-world abuse looks like. Material changes are posted here and emailed to account admins.