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  "methodology": "https://sourcescore.org/methodology/",
  "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/le-monde/",
  "source": {
    "slug": "le-monde",
    "name": "Le Monde",
    "domain": "lemonde.fr",
    "category": "News",
    "summary": "France's paper of record since 1944, with English edition (lemonde.fr/en/) widely cited.",
    "founded": 1944,
    "verified": "2026-04-28",
    "methodologyVersion": "v0.1"
  },
  "scores": {
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      "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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    "data": "Underlying public-source data credited to original publishers"
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