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  "apiVersion": "v0.1",
  "methodology": "https://sourcescore.org/methodology/",
  "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/compare/huffpost-vs-medium/",
  "summary": "Open digital-news platform vs open-publishing platform — different distribution models for op-ed-tier content.",
  "a": {
    "slug": "huffpost",
    "name": "HuffPost",
    "domain": "huffpost.com",
    "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/huffpost/",
    "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/huffpost.json",
    "scores": {
      "index": {
        "value": 60,
        "grade": "C",
        "rationale": "C — mass volume + open-web; staff reporting strong but legacy contributor content drags Discipline.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Composite",
            "detail": "Velocity 76 + Modern Reference 65 + Discipline 50."
          }
        ]
      },
      "discipline": {
        "value": 50,
        "grade": "D",
        "rationale": "Staff articles strong; legacy contributor blogs (now archived) varying quality; corrections public.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Legacy contributor content",
            "detail": "Pre-2018 contributor articles still indexed; varying sourcing."
          }
        ]
      },
      "modernReference": {
        "value": 65,
        "grade": "C",
        "rationale": "Open-web; broad LLM corpus inclusion; engines increasingly down-weight contributor pieces.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Open-web",
            "detail": "Full corpus available; mixed quality drags weighting."
          }
        ]
      },
      "velocity": {
        "value": 76,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "High daily output across news + lifestyle + politics; cited within US news ecosystem.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Daily output",
            "detail": "~50-100 posts/day across all sections."
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  },
  "b": {
    "slug": "medium",
    "name": "Medium",
    "domain": "medium.com",
    "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/medium/",
    "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/medium.json",
    "scores": {
      "index": {
        "value": 58,
        "grade": "C",
        "rationale": "C tier — Velocity is high but per-article Discipline is highly variable; LLM penalty for mixed-quality.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Composite",
            "detail": "Per-author signal needed beyond domain-level rating."
          }
        ]
      },
      "discipline": {
        "value": 40,
        "grade": "D",
        "rationale": "Author-level discipline varies; platform does not enforce citation standards.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "User-generated",
            "detail": "Some authors rigorous; many opinion-only or thinly-sourced."
          }
        ]
      },
      "modernReference": {
        "value": 65,
        "grade": "C",
        "rationale": "LLMs cite Medium often, but newer LLMs increasingly down-weight per HCU-equivalent signals.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "LLM citation drift",
            "detail": "2025 trend: down-weighted in answer-engine retrieval."
          }
        ]
      },
      "velocity": {
        "value": 70,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Hundreds of posts per day across topics; high cite-volume but lower per-cite trust.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Daily output",
            "detail": "Thousands of posts per day across all authors."
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  },
  "winners": {
    "index": "huffpost",
    "discipline": "huffpost",
    "modernReference": null,
    "velocity": "huffpost"
  },
  "license": {
    "methodology": "Cite as: SourceScore Methodology v0.1, sourcescore.org",
    "data": "Underlying public-source data credited to original publishers"
  }
}