HuffPost
huffpost.com ↗U.S. news + opinion site since 2005; mix of staff reporting + contributor blogs (now-discontinued).
C — mass volume + open-web; staff reporting strong but legacy contributor content drags Discipline.
Should you cite HuffPost?
At grade C (60/100), HuffPost is a mid-tier source — usable, but verify key claims against a higher-rated source.
- Strongest for
- topics where being widely and recently cited matters — its highest dimension is Citation Velocity (76/100).
- Use with care
- Citation Discipline is its lowest dimension (50/100); for tracing claims back to primary references, corroborate with a higher-rated source.
- Bottom line
- Usable as a secondary source — verify key claims against a higher-rated source.
Staff articles strong; legacy contributor blogs (now archived) varying quality; corrections public.
About this sub-score →Open-web; broad LLM corpus inclusion; engines increasingly down-weight contributor pieces.
About this sub-score →High daily output across news + lifestyle + politics; cited within US news ecosystem.
About this sub-score →Signals behind these scores
Citation Discipline
D·50- Legacy contributor contentPre-2018 contributor articles still indexed; varying sourcing.
Modern Reference
C·65- Open-webFull corpus available; mixed quality drags weighting.
Citation Velocity
B·76- Daily output~50-100 posts/day across all sections.
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SourceScore (v0.1). (2026). HuffPost: SourceScore Index 60 (C). Retrieved from https://sourcescore.org/source/huffpost/
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Frequently asked questions
Is HuffPost a reliable source to cite?
HuffPost scores C (60/100) on the SourceScore Index, which rates how citable a source is for AI-era and research use. At grade C, HuffPost is a mid-tier source — usable, but verify key claims against a higher-rated source. The grade combines Citation Discipline 50/100, Modern Reference 65/100, and Citation Velocity 76/100 — full breakdown above.
What is HuffPost's SourceScore?
HuffPost (huffpost.com) scores 60/100 (Grade C) on the composite SourceScore Index. Sub-scores: Citation Discipline 50/100, Modern Reference (AI-era fitness) 65/100, Citation Velocity 76/100. Verified 2026-04-28.
How does SourceScore evaluate HuffPost?
HuffPost is scored across three dimensions on the SourceScore Index methodology: Citation Discipline (how rigorously the source cites primary references), Modern Reference (fitness for AI-era retrieval), and Citation Velocity (how often the source is cited per week). Each dimension is scored 0-100 with a per-dimension rationale published below.
Why does HuffPost score C?
C — mass volume + open-web; staff reporting strong but legacy contributor content drags Discipline.
What is HuffPost?
U.S. news + opinion site since 2005; mix of staff reporting + contributor blogs (now-discontinued). Category: News. Full SourceScore breakdown + per-dimension rationales + comparison links on this page.