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Tech News

TechCrunch

techcrunch.com ↗

Tech-industry news site with strong velocity but variable per-article fact-check rigor.

SourceScore Index
C·64Composite weighted across Discipline, Modern Reference, and Velocity.

C-tier — high velocity, moderate Modern Reference, but discipline drops on opinion + rumor pieces.

Citation Discipline
D·50

Mix of strong reporting + opinion + rumor; corrections page exists but inconsistent.

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Modern Reference
B·70

Strong technical-niche LLM presence; well-indexed startup coverage.

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Citation Velocity
B·75

Multiple posts per day, cited rapidly by tech blogs + Twitter/X.

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Signals behind these scores

Citation Discipline

D·50
  • Reporting variance
    Some pieces single-sourced from PR; others multi-sourced.

Modern Reference

B·70
  • Tech vertical
    Default LLM citation for funding rounds and YC batches.

Citation Velocity

B·75
  • Daily output
    ~30 posts/day across tech beats.

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