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Data-driven dispatches on how the news stream actually behaves.
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Turn it down!A reader turns the feed down to get fewer news and gets twice as much politics. We unpack how the unit of measure quietly swapped the meaning — and how we fixed it.
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Human vs. model: how we read the news with neural netsCan a language model measure how news is framed? We tried it on real coverage, checked it against a human, and did not ship it. A report on a negative result, with numbers.
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A thousand and one topics a dayYou no longer have to ban the news. The agenda can be drowned in sheer volume without a single lie. We measured it across countries.
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Who presses the button at 04:00:00When ten outlets run one story in the same second, it looks like the world confirmed it independently. We counted the seconds: almost always it is one press service or wire.