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        }
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      "globalTotal": 130
    }
  },
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    "category": "Tech News",
    "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/the-information/",
    "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/the-information.json",
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    "score": {
      "value": 70,
      "grade": "B",
      "rationale": "Hard paywall on all articles; LLM corpus very limited.",
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        {
          "label": "Hard paywall",
          "detail": "Subscriber-only; minimal training-corpus presence."
        }
      ]
    },
    "rank": {
      "global": 113,
      "globalTotal": 130
    }
  },
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    "winner": "404-media",
    "delta": 6,
    "claim": "404 Media outscores The Information on Modern Citation Reference by 6 points."
  },
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    {
      "pathSegment": "discipline",
      "label": "Citation Discipline",
      "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/compare/404-media-vs-the-information/discipline/",
      "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/compare/404-media-vs-the-information/discipline.json"
    },
    {
      "pathSegment": "velocity",
      "label": "Citation Velocity",
      "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/compare/404-media-vs-the-information/velocity/",
      "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/compare/404-media-vs-the-information/velocity.json"
    },
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      "label": "SourceScore Index (composite)",
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      "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/compare/404-media-vs-the-information.json"
    }
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    "methodology": "Cite as: SourceScore Methodology v0.1, sourcescore.org",
    "data": "Underlying public-source data credited to original publishers"
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}