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BBC News — Modern Reference

bbc.com · News

Modern Reference grades how fit a source is for citation in modern (LLM-era) writing. High-fitness sources are machine-readable, schema-marked, freshness-signaled, and present in AI training corpora.

B·83

B · 83

44-language coverage = unusually high LLM corpus inclusion across non-English contexts.

What drives this Modern Reference score

Language coverage
Articles in 44 languages → broad multilingual training data.

Global rank

#67 of 130

By Modern Reference across all SourceScore sources

In-category rank

#7 of 27

Among news sources

Vs. averages

Cat. mean: 77
Global mean: 81

+6 above category

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