Every story has a fingerprint.
Who said it first. Who owns the voices repeating it. Whether it spread on its own or was pushed. What changed after it was published. We show how the news moved and let you decide.
Today's biggest stories, with their prints
Each card counts the independent voices behind a story, not the outlets: copies, one owner's chain and wire texts count once. Then who owns them, and what changed.
Big at home, unheard abroad
We read each country's own press in its own language. These stories were carried by three or more of a country's own outlets, from at least two owners, and by no outlet anywhere else.
Of the headlines about a country in the world's English-language news, the share written by that country's own press. Amber is its own press.
Who owns the press
Families, companies, governments and politicians behind the outlets we read. Every row links to its source. This map grows every week.
How we read a story
Five signals, measured the same way for every outlet in every country. The formulas are public; anyone can check us.
Origin
The earliest report we saw, with its time. Sealed, so it cannot be moved later.
Wording
"45 outlets" can be one report copied 44 times. We count headlines written in their own words.
Owners
Who controls each outlet: families, companies, governments, politicians. Sourced row by row.
Spread
Did it rise across many voices, arrive as wire copy, or appear word for word across one owner's outlets?
Changes
Headlines rewritten after publication under the same link, with the original kept.
Every side
What each country in the story says in its own press, in its own language, with each outlet's owner beside it.
Independent voices
"45 outlets" can be one owner and one wire. We collapse copies, owners and agency credits and count the voices that remain.
Claims by claimant
Every figure is tied to who said it. The same source changing a number is "changed"; two sources disagreeing is "disputed". We never pick.
Measured accuracy
A hand-checked gold set scores grouping, origin, copies and voices. The scores and their date are published here.
We never say who is right. We show where a story came from and how it moved, and leave the judgement to you.