Methodology

Every page on Live Feeds is a living page: a persistent, source-cited record that updates as the story changes. Here is exactly how each update is produced.

1. Discovery

For each feed we monitor a curated set of RSS/Atom feeds and run targeted searches on our own metasearch instance to surface newly published, relevant sources. Hot feeds are checked every few minutes; quieter ones less often.

2. Fetch & respect

We honour robots.txt, rate-limit politely, and never bypass paywalls or anti-bot measures. We store facts and short excerpts and link back to the original — we do not republish article bodies.

3. De-duplication

Every incoming item is hashed and fingerprinted. If it repeats something we already covered, it is discarded. A feed only updates when there is genuinely new, corroborated signal — so we never publish redundant pages.

4. Grounded synthesis

An update is written strictly from the corroborated material gathered, in our own words, with inline source markers. Numbers and quotes are used verbatim from a source or omitted. Confirmed facts are separated from rumours, and each update carries a confidence level reflecting source agreement and primary-source presence.

5. Quality gate

Before anything publishes it must clear an automated gate: enough distinct corroborating sources, sufficient novelty versus our previous update, clean prose, and a minimum quality score. Updates that fail are held, not shipped. Sensitive topics (health, finance, elections, named private individuals) route to human review.

6. Indexing

New feeds start unlisted and noindex. A feed becomes eligible for search engines only after it has accumulated genuinely useful, repeatedly-verified content — quality before volume.

Corrections

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