Hercules & Love Affair is committed to delivering accurate, uncompromising, and premium journalism covering the global electronic music industry, festival culture, and celebrity lifestyle. To maintain the trust of our readership and the wider music community, our editorial team adheres to strict journalistic standards.
1. Editorial Independence
Our editorial content is strictly independent of advertising, sponsorships, and external commercial pressures. While we may cover luxury brands, elite festival experiences, and high-net-worth individuals, our reporting is never influenced by financial compensation. Any sponsored content or advertorials will be explicitly labeled as “Sponsored” at the top of the article.
2. Fact-Checking & Accuracy
The electronic music landscape moves rapidly. Our writers and editors are required to rigorously verify all claims, tour dates, financial estimations, and industry news through primary sources, official press releases, public records, and verified artist representatives before publication. We do not publish unverified rumors as fact.
3. Corrections Policy
Transparency is the cornerstone of trust. If a factual error is published, we are committed to correcting it swiftly and visibly.
- Minor typographical or grammatical errors will be corrected directly in the text without an editor’s note.
- Substantive factual errors will be corrected, and a clear “Correction” or “Update” note will be appended to the bottom or top of the article, explaining what was changed and when.
- If you spot an error in our reporting, please reach out to our editorial desk directly at editor@herculesandloveaffair.com
4. Plagiarism and Originality
Hercules & Love Affair maintains a zero-tolerance policy toward plagiarism. All articles, track reviews, and industry reports must be entirely original. When aggregating news broken by other tier-1 publications, we adhere to fair use standards and will explicitly name and hyperlink to the original source.
5. Artificial Intelligence (AI) Usage
As a publication reporting on the intersection of music and technology, we recognize the rise of AI. While our editors may use AI-assisted tools for data aggregation, transcription, or SEO structuring, all published articles are written, reviewed, and fact-checked by human journalists. We do not publish purely AI-generated news articles, and we remain dedicated to authentic, human-driven music journalism.