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What every label means, how a story gets to the front page and what the model does and does not decide.
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The Feed publishes once a day. You do not need an account: all nine desks, every article, search, filters, briefings, Perspectives and The Test are open to everyone. "Updated 13h ago" in the masthead is the time since the newest article was fetched, so anything up to about a day is normal.
Desks and ranking
Desks are sections: Front Page, General, Artificial Intelligence, Security, Tech, Endpoint, Science, Politics and Finance. Articles are grouped into events, so a story carried by ten outlets appears once with ten sources.
The sort called Top weighs impact first, then how many outlets carried the story, takes points off rated stories with low trust or truth, and halves a story's score every 72 hours. It looks at the last seven days and shows one card per story. Latest sorts by when the Feed fetched an article and Published by the publisher's date.
The scores
| Label | What it means |
|---|---|
| Scrutiny | How much care to take. Higher is worse. Under 20 is low, under 45 moderate, under 70 high, and above that very high. It combines manipulation, weak sourcing and the outlet's record, and each corroborating outlet takes a little off. |
| Trust | 100 minus a weighted mix of fallacy, propaganda, slop and bias intensity. Used by the Trust filter and sort; not printed on cards. |
| Manipulation | 100 minus Trust. |
| Outlet | A starting score by kind of outlet: wire service 90, established outlet 70, blog or unknown 50. |
| Corroboration | Other outlets carrying the same story. Ten fill the bar. |
| Impact | How far a story reaches. The chip appears at 70 or more, and it can appear on a story that is otherwise unrated. |
| Truthiness | Fact-checked stories only. Up to six claims are checked; supported counts 100, unverified 50 and contradicted 0, and the score is their average. 75 or more checks out, 50 mostly holds, 30 is shaky and lower is disputed. |
These are readings by a language model plus some rules. They are a reason to look closer, not a ruling. A claim marked contradicted means the evidence found disagrees with it, not that a court has spoken.
Unrated stories
Full scoring is a small daily quota: nine stories, three each from politics, finance and general, drawn from the last three days. Everything else reads unrated with dashes in its bars, and impact and corroboration still show. Unrated does not mean bad. It means nobody has looked yet.
Because of that, the Trust filter's High 80+ includes unrated stories at their rules-only baseline. Use Fact-checked if you want only stories that have been through a check.
Briefings and reviews
- Today's Briefing covers the last 36 hours, with citations and a verification pass, and a strip showing what changed since the last one. On a quiet day it says so.
- Pattern Watch names one to three through-lines from the last seven days, and hides when there are none.
- Month in Review covers the last 30 days and is rewritten on Sundays.
Perspectives
On the article page, the day's top three stories with at least three outlets get a reading under five headings: Across the coverage, How it's framed, Common ground, In dispute, and What it could mean. It describes framing. It does not decide who is right.
The Test
New. For the day's top five stories with at least two real sources: the question at issue, what is claimed, the case for and against, how it is argued, what would settle it and what is still unanswered. There is no verdict at the end.
| Chip | What it means |
|---|---|
| Corroborated | At least two independent sources with no shared origin. |
| One source | Only one source carries it. |
| Contested | A source disputes it. This chip can over-mark for now, so read the sentence behind it. |
| All from X | Several reports repeat one origin, so they count once. |
Filters, search and phones
- Search filters as you type, inside the current desk. The Front Page leaves out finance, tech, general and science, so a story there may need its own desk.
- Themes are Default, Dark and Outset, remembered on your device.
- On a phone, sections are in a dropdown, filters are behind FILTERS, and briefs fold with a Read the rest link, followed by the lead, Top Stories and The Latest.
- Keyboard: there are no shortcut keys. Enter or Space opens a focused card, and Esc closes search.
Accounts
There is no public sign-up; an administrator creates accounts. Signing in adds Saved stories, your own sources, open-web search and your own model API for analysis on request.
Privacy
- No analytics and no third-party scripts, images or fonts. The page's security policy blocks them.
- Images are fetched by the server ahead of time and served from the Feed, so your browser never contacts an image host.
- A signed-out reader gets one cookie, a security token for forms. Your theme is stored in your browser.
- Like most web servers, the Feed keeps request logs: address, page, search terms, time and browser type. Article views are counted in aggregate.
Questions
Why are so many stories unrated?
The full scorecard has a quota of nine a day. It runs on one local machine, on purpose.
Why is an old story in Top Stories?
That rail counts views and AI uses, with no date window. The main grid does age stories.
Why do several cards share a time?
Cards show when the Feed fetched an article, and it fetches once a day.
Search missed a story I can see elsewhere. Why?
Search covers the desk you are on. Switch to the story's desk and try again.
Why does this story have no Perspective or Test?
Only the day's top stories get them. Signed-in readers can ask for one on any story.
The Save button failed. Why?
Saved stories and the AI tools need an account. Buttons still show when you are signed out, and they will say so.
Is this written by AI?
The briefings, Perspectives and scores are written by a language model running locally. The articles are the outlets' own, linked at the source.
Run your own
The Feed runs from Docker Compose on your own machine, with your own sources and an Ollama server. The source and install guide open with its public release.