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      "name": "Hacker News",
      "domain": "news.ycombinator.com",
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      "category": "Platform",
      "summary": "User-generated long-form platform; per-article quality varies from professional to amateur.",
      "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/medium/",
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      "name": "Forbes",
      "domain": "forbes.com",
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      "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/forbes/",
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      "grade": "C",
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      "dimRank": 6,
      "compositeRank": 10,
      "rankDelta": 4,
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      "name": "Fox News",
      "domain": "foxnews.com",
      "category": "News",
      "summary": "U.S. cable news brand with mass online reach; opinion-news mix; per-piece quality varies between hard news and commentary.",
      "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/fox-news/",
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      "name": "HuffPost",
      "domain": "huffpost.com",
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      "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/huffpost/",
      "score": 65,
      "grade": "C",
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      "compositeGrade": "C"
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      "dimRank": 8,
      "compositeRank": 2,
      "rankDelta": -6,
      "slug": "anandtech",
      "name": "AnandTech",
      "domain": "anandtech.com",
      "category": "Tech News",
      "summary": "Hardware reviews + benchmarks since 1997; site closed for new content 2024 but archive widely cited.",
      "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/anandtech/",
      "score": 65,
      "grade": "C",
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      "compositeGrade": "C"
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      "dimRank": 9,
      "compositeRank": 1,
      "rankDelta": -8,
      "slug": "gartner",
      "name": "Gartner",
      "domain": "gartner.com",
      "category": "Business",
      "summary": "IT industry research firm since 1979; Magic Quadrant + Hype Cycle frameworks widely cited.",
      "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/gartner/",
      "score": 60,
      "grade": "C",
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      "compositeGrade": "C"
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      "dimRank": 10,
      "compositeRank": 6,
      "rankDelta": -4,
      "slug": "statista",
      "name": "Statista",
      "domain": "statista.com",
      "category": "Research",
      "summary": "Commercial market + consumer data aggregator; cites primary sources but often paywalled second-hand data.",
      "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/statista/",
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}