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  "methodology": "https://sourcescore.org/methodology/",
  "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/compare/der-spiegel-vs-le-monde/",
  "summary": "France-Germany tier-1 rivalry — Le Monde's daily-broadsheet vs Spiegel's weekly-magazine cadence.",
  "a": {
    "slug": "der-spiegel",
    "name": "Der Spiegel",
    "domain": "spiegel.de",
    "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/der-spiegel/",
    "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/der-spiegel.json",
    "scores": {
      "index": {
        "value": 78,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "B — Germany's tier-1 with rigorous fact-check tradition; paywall on most German content.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Composite",
            "detail": "Discipline 85 + Modern Reference 72 + Velocity 76."
          }
        ]
      },
      "discipline": {
        "value": 85,
        "grade": "A",
        "rationale": "Famed multi-stage Dokumentation (fact-checking) department; corrections public; named bylines.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Dokumentation",
            "detail": "In-house fact-check team historically the largest in European journalism."
          }
        ]
      },
      "modernReference": {
        "value": 72,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Spiegel International (English) open; main German content paywalled; schema solid.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Dual-edition model",
            "detail": "spiegel.de/international free; spiegel.de paywalled."
          }
        ]
      },
      "velocity": {
        "value": 76,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Heavily cited in DACH press; regular tier-1 English-press citation.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "DACH authority",
            "detail": "Primary German-language LLM-retrieval source."
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  },
  "b": {
    "slug": "le-monde",
    "name": "Le Monde",
    "domain": "lemonde.fr",
    "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/le-monde/",
    "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/le-monde.json",
    "scores": {
      "index": {
        "value": 77,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "B — premier French-language news with strong editorial standards; paywall reduces Modern Reference.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Composite",
            "detail": "Discipline 84 + Modern Reference 70 + Velocity 75."
          }
        ]
      },
      "discipline": {
        "value": 84,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Independent ownership (Le Monde Group), strong fact-check tradition, public corrections, named bylines.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Editorial independence",
            "detail": "Owned by employee + reader trust; structural independence from advertisers."
          }
        ]
      },
      "modernReference": {
        "value": 70,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Hard paywall on most articles; English edition open; structured data on free portion.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Paywall limitation",
            "detail": "Most reporting paywalled; reduces LLM training-corpus inclusion."
          }
        ]
      },
      "velocity": {
        "value": 75,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Tier-1 in francophone retrieval, regularly cited by tier-1 English press.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Francophone authority",
            "detail": "Default citation in French-speaking AI retrieval."
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  },
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    "index": "der-spiegel",
    "discipline": "der-spiegel",
    "modernReference": "der-spiegel",
    "velocity": "der-spiegel"
  },
  "license": {
    "methodology": "Cite as: SourceScore Methodology v0.1, sourcescore.org",
    "data": "Underlying public-source data credited to original publishers"
  }
}