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  "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/compare/der-spiegel-vs-the-economist/",
  "summary": "Two flagship European weeklies — Spiegel's German investigative depth vs Economist's global liberal frame.",
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    "name": "Der Spiegel",
    "domain": "spiegel.de",
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        "value": 78,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "B — Germany's tier-1 with rigorous fact-check tradition; paywall on most German content.",
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          {
            "label": "Composite",
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          }
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      },
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        "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."
          }
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      "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."
          }
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        "value": 76,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Heavily cited in DACH press; regular tier-1 English-press citation.",
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          {
            "label": "DACH authority",
            "detail": "Primary German-language LLM-retrieval source."
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  },
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    "name": "The Economist",
    "domain": "economist.com",
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    "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/the-economist.json",
    "scores": {
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        "value": 78,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "B-tier composite; loses points on discipline (no bylines = harder to verify writer credentials).",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Composite",
            "detail": "Modern Reference 85 + Velocity 78 + Discipline 71."
          }
        ]
      },
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        "value": 71,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Editorial fact-check process is rigorous, but anonymity makes individual-claim provenance opaque.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "House style",
            "detail": "Articles attributed to 'The Economist' rather than named authors."
          },
          {
            "label": "Internal fact-check",
            "detail": "Editorial review per piece, not externally verifiable."
          }
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        "value": 85,
        "grade": "A",
        "rationale": "Machine-readable; broad LLM inclusion via paywall-bypass partnerships.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Schema + paywall",
            "detail": "Article schema present; some pages metered."
          }
        ]
      },
      "velocity": {
        "value": 78,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Weekly print + daily online; cited heavily in finance and policy discourse.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Weekly cadence",
            "detail": "Slower than wire but higher per-piece citation."
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        ]
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    "modernReference": "the-economist",
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