Governance charter · version 1.1
Content governance charter
Every public statement must make clear whether it is Christopher’s lived experience, opinion, sourced fact, general education, commercial promotion, or AI-assisted draft. Confidence, emotion, and repetition do not turn an unsupported claim into a fact.
Ownership and roles
- Christopher: owns the site and source content and gives final approval for public biography, family story, mission, commercial representation, and material publication.
- Andrew — Corrections Management: verifies claims, maintains citations and corrections, preserves protected homepage content, and implements owner-approved changes for this website only.
- Drafting automation: may prepare site-specific drafts but has no authority to publish a webpage, send a newsletter campaign, post to social media, invent a fact, or approve itself.
- Outside reviewers: advise only on the exact material and professional scope actually reviewed.
Claim classes
| Class | How it must be labeled | Evidence and approval |
|---|---|---|
| Lived experience | First-person experience or family perspective; not universal advice. | Christopher approves privacy, accuracy to his experience, and what family details may be public. |
| Opinion or advocacy | Clearly framed as a view, value, concern, or interpretation. | Do not present speculation, political rhetoric, historical analogy, or disputed claim as established fact. |
| Factual claim | Plain statement with a source close to the claim where useful. | Use a current primary or authoritative source; record access/review date; disclose uncertainty or conflict. |
| Professional or legal/medical boundary | General education with explicit scope. | Do not personalize. Material claims require review by the relevant qualified professional before an approval claim. |
| Commercial claim | Commercial purpose and material connection disclosed clearly. | Verify product, price, files, delivery, limits, refund source, and evidence for any objective claim. |
| AI-assisted text | Human-reviewed before public release; disclose AI assistance when materially relevant or legally required. | Verify every factual claim, link, quotation, identity, and safety statement. The model is never the source. |
Source hierarchy
- Controlling law, official government publication, regulator, or court text for legal status.
- Current official provider documentation for platform behavior and terms.
- Systematic evidence review, professional practice guideline, or directly relevant primary research for health or technical claims.
- Autistic-led organizations and first-person accounts for language, priorities, harms, and lived experience—identified as perspective, not treated as clinical authority.
- Secondary reporting only when primary material is unavailable, identified as secondary, and not used alone for high-stakes claims.
Sources can disagree or answer different questions. The editor must preserve the distinction rather than forcing false certainty. Current source details for Chris AI are in the autism evidence register.
Mandatory review before publication
- Confirm the content is only for Advocate Not Adversary and does not expose another project, client, account, or private system.
- Classify each material claim and verify it from the appropriate source type.
- Remove unnecessary names, child identifiers, health records, school information, private correspondence, credentials, and location details.
- Check autism language for stereotypes, deficit-only framing, cure claims, false prevalence, assumptions about empathy/intelligence/speech, and universal treatment claims.
- Check crisis, medical, legal, education, and financial boundaries.
- Check commercial purpose, price, material connection, testimonials, urgency, and listing accuracy.
- Check accessibility, headings, link purpose, motion/media, alternate text or transcript, and available alternate formats.
- Record human reviewer, owner approval where required, date, source set, revision, and unresolved limitations.
Prohibited publication
- Invented biography, quotation, testimonial, credential, endorsement, statistic, source, price, deadline, discount, or product function.
- Diagnosis, prescription, cure, guaranteed outcome, personalized legal conclusion, or instructions to disregard qualified care or emergency support.
- Dehumanizing or stigmatizing autism stereotypes; claims that speech equals intelligence; assumptions about empathy, comprehension, behavior, independence, or family worth.
- Private family, health, education, financial, account, support-ticket, subscriber, purchase, or credential information.
- Unverified accusations of crime, abuse, corruption, conspiracy, affiliation, or wrongdoing presented as fact.
- Content designed to exploit distress, disability, crisis, fear, shame, or a child’s story for engagement or sales.
Corrections, takedowns, and record
A safety-critical, private-data, defamatory, materially misleading, or unauthorized item should be disabled or removed while it is reviewed. Other corrections should be logged, verified, and published without hiding the material nature of the change. The public Updates page is the preferred place for significant release notes and corrections; minor typography may be corrected without a public notice when meaning is unchanged.
A correction record should include the report, affected page, previous claim, evidence, decision, approver, change, deployment, verification, and any remaining limit. The operator should preserve necessary evidence privately while avoiding retention of copied sensitive material.
Publication system boundary
The current content studio stores drafts as site update, newsletter, or social content. Only a signed-in human can publish a site-update draft to the public Updates page or a newsletter draft to The Quiet Fight web archive. A web-published newsletter draft is an article only; it does not send email. Social drafts may be approved for manual use, and the Worker has no automatic campaign-send or social-post route. That separation is a required control, not an inconvenience to bypass.
Review cycle
Review occurs whenever a source, law, provider, model, product, family disclosure, business relationship, or material fact changes, and is scheduled at least quarterly. “Reviewed” must identify the scope and date; it must not imply approval by a person who did not actually review the material.
Document owner: Christopher M. Caballero · Maintenance: Andrew, Corrections Management · Version 1.1 · Effective September 5, 2026