Higher is usually better
Importance, interest, and credibility become stronger as the number rises.
This guide explains where the numbers come from, what they measure, and how to read them without technical jargon.
These scores are automated hints. They help you orient yourself quickly, but they do not replace reading the story and checking sources.
Importance, interest, and credibility become stronger as the number rises.
Manipulation and advertisement scores are warning signals. A higher number means more caution, not better quality.
0-30 is usually low, 40-60 is medium, and 70-100 is high. These ranges are guidance, not hard law.
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.
These scores belong to one published article. They are not the same thing as event-level or Pulse-level metrics.
An event groups multiple published articles about the same topic. These numbers describe the coverage around that topic, not just one story.
Pulse describes the overall news stream. It summarizes what is happening across published coverage during the last 24 hours.
The safest way to use the metrics is to read several numbers together instead of trusting one score alone.
The page should help you move faster, but it should also be honest about uncertainty.