About the news now

Every article here is written from at least three news outlets at once, never reproduced from one. The point is not to tell you what happened faster, but to show you how differently it was reported, and to cite every source it came from.

One pool, not one country

There are no national sections. Coverage of an event is gathered from every outlet that reported it, wherever they are, and synthesized once. A story about Japan carries Japanese, American and European reporting in the same article, because that is the only way the differences between them become visible.

Outlets that publish in other languages are translated before anything is compared, so a French account of an event sits alongside a British one rather than in a section of its own. Choosing a language here changes what you read it in, never which stories you are shown.

How a story gets here

1. Collect. Fetch what each outlet published since the last run, in whatever language it publishes in.
2. Translate. Bring foreign headlines into a common language so coverage of one event can be recognised as such.
3. Group. Compare articles by meaning rather than keywords, so reports of the same event end up together whatever headline each outlet chose. A model then confirms the grouping really is one event, and splits it if not.
4. Discard. Drop anything fewer than three outlets covered. This removes most of what was collected, and it is meant to.
5. Write. Produce a single article from the whole group, leading with what the sources agree on and stating explicitly where outlets framed the event differently.
6. Check. A second pass scores the draft against the source texts and names any claim they do not support. Unsupported claims are removed and the article rewritten, up to a limit.
7. Publish. Tag the story by country, region and subject, translate it into every language the site is published in, and check whether it continues a story already being followed.

Reading the bar

Each story carries a bar showing where its coverage came from. It is grouped by the country each outlet reports from, and coloured by where that outlet sits in its own country's politics. Segments marked with diagonal hatching belong to outlets that are state-affiliated or state-controlled.

Political leaning is only comparable inside one country. Left in Israel and left in India are positions in different systems, so the bar groups by country before it shows leaning at all. Publicly funded broadcasters such as the BBC or Deutsche Welle are not marked as state-linked: public funding with editorial independence written into law is a different thing from government control.

Where every source for a story reports from one country, the story says so. For international news that is a sharper warning than political balance: six outlets from one country are not diverse coverage however their politics spread.

The other labels

Source count is how many separate outlets contributed. It is also how the most-covered page is ranked: not by importance as judged by anyone here, but by how many newsrooms independently thought the event worth reporting.

The faithfulness score is the proportion of the article's claims that the checking pass found supported by the sources. Be clear about what that is: a model grading its own work. It catches the obvious cases and it is published unedited, including when it is low, but it is not a fact-check.

When a story continues one already being followed it is published as a development and links back to the earlier coverage, rather than appearing as though it were new.

What this is not

• It is not edited by a person. Every article is machine written and machine translated. Nobody reads it before it is published.
• It is not a fact-checker. The check described above asks whether the article reflects its sources, not whether those sources are right.
• It is not exhaustive. It can only see the outlets it has been pointed at, so its blind spots are theirs.
• It does not replace the original reporting. Every story lists the articles it was built from, with links, in the language they were published in. Follow them.

Right now

Outlets

99

Countries

36

Articles published

467