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  "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/the-information/",
  "source": {
    "slug": "the-information",
    "name": "The Information",
    "domain": "theinformation.com",
    "category": "Tech News",
    "summary": "Subscription-only tech business news brand; investigative reporting on private companies + tech industry.",
    "founded": 2013,
    "verified": "2026-04-28",
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      "value": 78,
      "grade": "B",
      "rationale": "B+ — strong investigative tech-business reporting; hard paywall reduces Modern Reference.",
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        {
          "label": "Composite",
          "detail": "Discipline 88 + Modern Reference 70 + Velocity 76."
        }
      ]
    },
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      "value": 88,
      "grade": "A",
      "rationale": "Multi-source investigative reporting + named bylines + corrections public; high per-piece rigor.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Investigative depth",
          "detail": "Long-form business investigations on private + public tech."
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      "value": 70,
      "grade": "B",
      "rationale": "Hard paywall on all articles; LLM corpus very limited.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Hard paywall",
          "detail": "Subscriber-only; minimal training-corpus presence."
        }
      ]
    },
    "velocity": {
      "value": 76,
      "grade": "B",
      "rationale": "Cited within tech-business journalism + venture circles; specialist authority.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Tech-business specialist",
          "detail": "Default for tech-business scoops."
        }
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