FactsLane: How FactsLane metrics work

Quick reading guide

Higher is usually better

Importance, interest, and credibility become stronger as the number rises.

Higher can mean more risk

Manipulation and advertisement scores are warning signals. A higher number means more caution, not better quality.

Simple ranges

0-30 is usually low, 40-60 is medium, and 70-100 is high. These ranges are guidance, not hard law.

Where the data comes from

Different parts of the product use different inputs, so the same kind of number on two screens does not always mean the same thing.

For a single news story, the system looks at the title, description, article text, and source information.

For fact-checks, it compares key claims with outside sources and evidence.

For an event, it combines several published articles about the same topic and calculates shared metrics.

For Pulse, it looks at the published news stream from the last 24 hours.

For event turbulence, it looks at how coverage around one event changes over the last 48 hours.

How a single news article is evaluated

These scores belong to one published article. They are not the same thing as event-level or Pulse-level metrics.

Importance

What it means: Shows how strongly the story could affect people, decisions, markets, safety, or the public agenda.
What the number is based on: The system looks at the topic, scale, and likely consequences described in the article.
How to read it: A high score means the story is significant. A low score usually means the story is narrower, more local, or less consequential.

Interest

What it means: Shows how likely the topic is to attract attention from a broad audience.
What the number is based on: The system looks at how resonant, unusual, or widely relevant the topic appears.
How to read it: A high score means many readers may want to follow the story. It does not mean the story is reliable.

Credibility

What it means: Shows how reliable and complete the article appears.
What the number is based on: The system considers the article's completeness, tone, and reliability signals around the source and presentation.
How to read it: A high score suggests the article looks more trustworthy, but it is still not a guarantee that every claim is true.

Manipulation

What it means: Shows how much emotional pressure, bias, or persuasive framing the article seems to use.
What the number is based on: The system looks for propaganda-style language, loaded wording, and signs that the text is pushing the reader toward a conclusion.
How to read it: A high score is a warning sign. It means you should read more carefully, not that the story is more important.

What it means: Shows how much the article looks like promotion, sponsored content, or PR.
What the number is based on: The system looks at the tone and structure of the article to see whether it reads more like marketing than reporting.
How to read it: A high score means the piece may be selling or promoting something rather than reporting neutrally.

Political bias

What it means: Shows the direction of the article's political framing: left, center, or right. Stories without a political angle — such as sports results or science news — do not receive this label.
What the number is based on: The system looks at which side of the issue the article seems to favor in its wording and emphasis.
How to read it: This is not a label of good or bad. It is a clue about the angle from which the story is told.

Fact-check

What it means: Checks specific claims in the story against external evidence.
What the number is based on: The system extracts key claims and compares them with outside sources instead of judging only the article itself.
How to read it: Fact-check results are separate from the credibility score. A story can look polished and still have claims that need verification.

Market impact

What it means: Estimates whether the news could move stocks, currencies, or crypto.
What the number is based on: The system uses the content of the news itself and gives a cautious probability for listed assets or markets.
How to read it: Treat it as a risk signal, not as financial advice or a trading instruction.

What event metrics mean

An event groups multiple published articles about the same topic. These numbers describe the coverage around that topic, not just one story.

Article count

What it means: Shows how many published articles were grouped into the event.
What the number is based on: The system counts the articles that were linked to the same event.
How to read it: A higher number means the topic has broader coverage, but not necessarily better coverage.

Source count

What it means: Shows how many different sources are covering the event.
What the number is based on: The system counts unique sources among the published articles assigned to the event.
How to read it: More sources usually mean broader coverage. Fewer sources can make the picture less stable.

Average importance

What it means: Shows the average importance score across the event's published articles.
What the number is based on: The system averages article-level importance scores inside the event.
How to read it: A high average means the event is made up mostly of high-impact stories.

Average credibility

What it means: Shows the average credibility score across the event's published articles.
What the number is based on: The system averages article-level credibility scores inside the event.
How to read it: A high average suggests the event coverage looks more reliable overall, but it still does not remove the need to read sources.

Average manipulation

What it means: Shows the average level of manipulative or propaganda-style framing inside the event coverage.
What the number is based on: The system averages article-level manipulation scores across the event.
How to read it: A high value means the topic is often being covered in a more emotional or slanted way.

Average advertisement

What it means: Shows the average level of promotional or PR-style writing inside the event coverage.
What the number is based on: The system averages article-level advertisement scores across the event.
How to read it: A high value suggests the coverage is more promotional on average.

Dominant bias

What it means: Shows which political direction appears most often across the event coverage.
What the number is based on: The system compares left, center, and right labels across the articles in the event.
How to read it: It does not say every article has that bias. It says this angle appears most often in the event's coverage.

Event turbulence

What it means: Shows how noisy and unstable the coverage around this one event looks.
What the number is based on: The system looks at changes in article activity over the last 48 hours, source diversity, and the overall tone of the event coverage.
How to read it: A high score means coverage is arriving unevenly and with more tension or intensity around this topic. It is not the same thing as the global Pulse score.

What Pulse means

Pulse describes the overall news stream. It summarizes what is happening across published coverage during the last 24 hours.

Active events

What it means: Shows how many distinct events are active in the published news stream.
What the number is based on: The system counts unique events seen in the last 24 hours of published coverage.
How to read it: A higher value means the news day is spread across more separate topics.

Published materials

What it means: Shows how many published news items were included in the Pulse window.
What the number is based on: The system counts published items from the last 24 hours.
How to read it: A higher value means there is more overall volume in the stream.

Unique sources

What it means: Shows how many different sources contributed to the Pulse stream.
What the number is based on: The system counts distinct sources in the last 24 hours of published coverage.
How to read it: More unique sources usually mean a wider view of the day, while fewer sources can mean a narrower information base.

Pulse turbulence

What it means: Shows how intense and unstable the overall news stream looks during the last 24 hours.
What the number is based on: The system combines volume, spikes in activity, freshness, negativity, importance, manipulation level, and political imbalance in the stream.
How to read it: A higher score means the day feels more tense, noisy, or unstable across the broader news flow.

Top events

What it means: Shows which events rise to the top of Pulse right now.
What the number is based on: The system ranks events by how much is being published, how many sources are involved, how recent the activity is, how important the stories are, and how much the event contributes to current turbulence.
How to read it: Top placement means the event is currently prominent in the stream. It does not automatically mean the event is the most truthful or the most important in human terms.

How FactsLane metrics work