Terms of use and community rules

Version of 10 November 2026.

Parallax is a service published by Atlas Digital SRL. These terms apply to anyone who uses it. Reading Parallax needs no account; creating one means accepting these terms and the community rules they contain.

What Parallax does

Parallax gathers articles from outlets in several European countries about the same event and describes, for each, how it frames it. That description is written automatically by an artificial intelligence: it can be wrong, it describes articles and never rates an outlet. Members debate there and publish their own posts, with images and videos for those who have access to them, under their own responsibility. Parallax does not read them before they are published, but moderates them as this page describes.

Your account

You must be 15 or older to create an account. An account belongs to one person, with an e-mail address of their own, and its password is not shared. Your handle is the only name others see: it impersonates no one and attacks no one. You can delete your account at any time, from your account.

The community rules

Parallax is a place for good-faith debate. Three rules apply to every message: we criticise ideas, never people; we source facts and figures, with a link anyone can open; we faithfully restate the position we reply to before replying.

Removed, on top of anything the law forbids: praise of terrorism and terrorist propaganda; any content that sexualises minors; hatred or discrimination against people for what they are; threats and calls to violence; praise of other dangerous or criminal acts, or help in committing them; disclosing a third party's personal data; explicit sexual content; advertising and repeated or off-topic messages. Publish only images and videos you have the right to share.

A personal attack is not removed: the coach warns you while you write, and it stays visible, under its author's responsibility. A message of distress stays visible too, and its author is shown where to find help.

Nothing is removed for being "false": facts are argued, with sources. A claim that may mislead gets a note of context instead, written by members or by the artificial intelligence, which shows only once people who disagree elsewhere find it helpful. A mistake in a press article is contested with a source.

How moderation decides

It is mostly an artificial intelligence that decides. First, automatic rules apply while you write: a figure or a study without a source, a message too short or too long, a reply without a restatement are not published, and the rest gets advice that blocks nothing. Then the artificial intelligence reads the content (for a post, its images and frames taken from its video) and weighs the context: a quotation, irony, a reply to another argument.

It removes praise of terrorism and the sexualisation of minors when it is almost certain; below that, a human decides. It removes the other forbidden content on its own beyond its certainty threshold, and the author can ask a human to review the decision. These thresholds adjust every day from human decisions: they rise when too many of its removals are overturned on appeal, and fall when humans remove what it let through. Otherwise, a human sees only what many people report and it cannot settle, and the appeals.

Anyone can report content, with or without an account. Once 1% of its views have reported it, and at least 3 people, the artificial intelligence reads it again in the light of the reports: sure it breaks a rule, it removes it; sure it does not, the reports close and their senders are told. If it cannot settle it, the content stays visible, then, from 2% of its views and at least 5 people, it is suspended until a human decides. A single report of praise of terrorism or the sexualisation of minors is enough for that second reading.

Decisions and appeals

Every decision that restricts content gives its reason: potentially illegal content or a community rule, what justifies it, and whether it was automated. You read it in "My decisions", from your account, and you can appeal it for 180 days: a person then reviews it first, never the artificial intelligence alone. You can also turn to a certified out-of-court dispute settlement body (Digital Services Act, article 21) or to the courts.

Contestations and notes

Members can contest an article (what it gets wrong or leaves out) and add context notes on an outlet, always with a source. A contestation shows only once members from both sides of the debate judge it founded, a note only once members from opposing sides find it helpful. The figure beside an outlet counts contested articles: it is never a reliability score, and the artificial intelligence takes no part in it. Contestations and notes follow the same rules and the same moderation as messages.

Your content

You remain the author of what you publish, images and videos included, and you answer for it. You allow Atlas Digital SRL, free of charge, to display it on Parallax for as long as it stays there, and to publish it on the fediverse if you chose to in your account. Parallax keeps a re-encoded copy of your images, without their metadata or location, and of a video the excerpt you chose. Deleting a post erases its words and media; deleting your account erases your posts, and your arguments stay in place so that the replies keep their meaning, without their text or any link to you (privacy notice).

Press content

From an article, Parallax takes only the headline, the link and an excerpt of at most 400 characters, and links to the outlet. In a debate, do not copy an article: quote a short passage and give its link.

Liability

Parallax is provided as it is, with no guarantee that the service is always available or that its analyses are accurate. Members' messages commit only their authors; Parallax acts as soon as illegal content is reported to it, as the Digital Services Act provides.

Changes

These terms change with the service. The version in force is the one on this page, dated at the top. If you no longer accept a new version, you can delete your account at any time.

Applicable law and contact

These terms are governed by Belgian law, without depriving you of the protection the law of your country of residence gives you. For any question, or to reach Parallax under the Digital Services Act, write to contact@atlasdigital.be, in French, English or Dutch.