Every score, filter and rule that picks, ranks or hides a story, in plain words, with the settings in force today.
These measures describe the tone and wording of the text. None of them measures whether a story is true. A calm, accurate report of something terrible can score as negative; a confident falsehood can score as neutral. Read the numbers as a description of how a text is written, never as a verdict on whether it is right.
For what the reading score and the objectivity dial show on each story, see how the scores work.
Before anything is judged, the pipeline decides which feeds to read this time. None of this looks at what a story says.
These are filters on the page itself, not judgements of the story. A story that fails one never enters the pool.
These numbers describe the language of the text. They are stored and shown beside each story. They measure tone and wording, not whether anything in the story is true.
Each pass publishes at most one story. Candidates are matched against a list of topics ("directives"), each with a fixed priority number.
These run on stories that are already published. They add information for readers and never decide what is published or where it appears.
Where the scores above end up, and the only places a score affects anything.
Settings read from the live site configuration on 2026-10-01