Primary evidence
Deadlines, thresholds, legal duties, statistics, and quotations must link to the responsible authority or original publication.
FRICTION RESEARCH / EDITORIAL CONTROL
Useful before promotional.
Sourced before published.
Version 1.0 / Effective 21 July 2026WHY THIS EXISTS
Trust is an operating requirement.
Friction writes about systems that can affect money, work, personal data, and business decisions. Search visibility does not justify weak claims. Our standard is designed to make every article understandable to an operator and traceable to the material that supports it.
Source status
Every source is identified as legislation, regulation, guideline, policy, consultation, technical documentation, or announcement. Guidance is not presented as legislation.
Original analysis
Friction paraphrases and adds operational analysis. Publisher articles, charts, photography, and substantial passages are not reproduced without permission or a suitable licence.
Image rights
Only Friction-owned, commissioned, Pexels, Unsplash, or verified Creative Commons media is used. The creator, source page, and licence are recorded.
Human review
Legal, financial, enforcement, breach, allegation, and named-person material requires human verification before publication.
Corrections
A material correction changes the visible updated date and is recorded in the article. Cosmetic date changes are not used to manufacture freshness.
STATUS LABELS
We distinguish what a source is.
- LAW OR REGULATIONBinding material, subject to scope, commencement, exceptions, and interpretation.
- OFFICIAL GUIDANCERegulator or agency guidance used to understand expected practice; not described as an Act.
- POLICY OR ANNOUNCEMENTDirection, target, programme, or stated intention; not treated as a guaranteed entitlement.
- FRICTION ANALYSISOur practical interpretation of what the source means for operations, clearly separated from the source itself.
IMAGE AND NEWS RIGHTS
We cite the news.
We license the image separately.
Friction does not lift photography from Malaysian news publishers. Current events link to the official release or original reporting, while the visual comes from a separately licensed source with a visible credit.Malaysia Copyright Act resources / MyIPO SPOT SOMETHING THAT NEEDS CORRECTION?