# Epistemic News
> AI-verified news from every angle.

Epistemic News is a news aggregation and verification platform that synthesizes reporting from diverse sources into balanced, cited articles. Every claim is sourced. Every perspective is labeled. The pipeline uses AI to verify facts, detect bias, and present multiple viewpoints on the same story.

Updated every 30 minutes. 122 feeds monitored across 26 countries.

## Current Top Stories (last 48 hours)

- [U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Emergency Appeal to Restore Virginia Congressional Map](https://epistemic.news/story/us-supreme-court-rejects-emergency-appeal-to-restore-virginia-congressional-map) (confidence: 82%), 25 sources
- [Trump Meets Xi Jinping in Beijing for State Visit](https://epistemic.news/story/trump-meets-xi-jinping-in-beijing-for-state-visit) (confidence: 75%), 4 sources
- [Trump Raises Jimmy Lai Case with Xi Jinping at Beijing Summit](https://epistemic.news/story/trump-raises-jimmy-lai-case-with-xi-jinping-at-beijing-summit) (confidence: 71%), 3 sources
- [London Screening of 'Planet Israel: A Cautionary Tale' Occurs on Eve of Nakba Day Amid Discussions of 1948 Events](https://epistemic.news/story/london-screening-of-planet-israel-a-cautionary-tale-occurs-on-eve-of-nakba-day-a) (confidence: 71%), 4 sources
- [Russia and Ukraine Complete First Phase of 1,000-for-1,000 Prisoner Exchange with 205 Each on May 15](https://epistemic.news/story/russia-and-ukraine-complete-first-phase-of-1000-for-1000-prisoner-exchange-with-) (confidence: 66%), 3 sources
- [Judge Declares Mistrial in Harvey Weinstein's Third New York Rape Trial After Jury Deadlock](https://epistemic.news/story/judge-declares-mistrial-in-harvey-weinsteins-third-new-york-rape-trial-after-jur) (confidence: 65%), 4 sources
- [UK Labour Party Faces Internal Pressure After Health Secretary Resignation and Lawmaker Calls for Starmer to Quit](https://epistemic.news/story/uk-labour-party-faces-internal-pressure-after-health-secretary-resignation-and-l) (confidence: 63%), 5 sources
- [DOJ Requests 1,500 Additional National Guard Troops for Washington D.C. Deployment](https://epistemic.news/story/doj-requests-1500-additional-national-guard-troops-for-washington-dc-deployment) (confidence: 61%), 3 sources
- [Russian President Putin to Visit China May 19-20 for Bilateral Talks](https://epistemic.news/story/russian-president-putin-to-visit-china-may-19-20-for-bilateral-talks) (confidence: 60%), 4 sources
- [Colorado Governor Reduces Former Clerk Tina Peters' Prison Sentence Following Appeals Court Ruling](https://epistemic.news/story/colorado-governor-reduces-former-clerk-tina-peters-prison-sentence-following-app) (confidence: 60%), 2 sources
- [YouTube and Snap Reach Settlements With Kentucky School District in Social Media Lawsuit](https://epistemic.news/story/youtube-and-snap-reach-settlements-with-kentucky-school-district-in-social-media) (confidence: 59%), 2 sources
- [Pentagon Cancels Planned Troop Deployment to Poland as Part of Europe Drawdown](https://epistemic.news/story/pentagon-cancels-planned-troop-deployment-to-poland-as-part-of-europe-drawdown) (confidence: 59%), 2 sources
- [West Bengal Government Suspends Three Police Officers for Lapses in RG Kar Rape-Murder Investigation](https://epistemic.news/story/west-bengal-government-suspends-three-police-officers-for-lapses-in-rg-kar-rape-) (confidence: 59%), 2 sources
- [John Travolta Receives Surprise Honorary Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival](https://epistemic.news/story/john-travolta-receives-surprise-honorary-palme-dor-at-cannes-film-festival) (confidence: 57%), 2 sources
- [FAA Issues 2026-2028 Air Traffic Controller Workforce Plan](https://epistemic.news/story/faa-issues-2026-2028-air-traffic-controller-workforce-plan) (confidence: 56%), 3 sources
- [Trump Announces China Boeing Plane Order Potentially Expanding to 750 Amid No Official Confirmation](https://epistemic.news/story/trump-announces-china-boeing-plane-order-potentially-expanding-to-750-amid-no-of) (confidence: 56%), 3 sources
- [Trump Announces Death of Abu-Bilal al-Minuki in US-Nigerian Operation](https://epistemic.news/story/trump-announces-death-of-abu-bilal-al-minuki-in-us-nigerian-operation) (confidence: 54%), 2 sources
- [New Sauropod Dinosaur Species Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis Identified in Thailand as Largest in Southeast Asia](https://epistemic.news/story/new-sauropod-dinosaur-species-nagatitan-chaiyaphumensis-identified-in-thailand-a) (confidence: 54%), 2 sources
- [Madhya Pradesh High Court Rules Bhojshala-Kamal Maula Complex a Hindu Temple and Grants Worship Rights](https://epistemic.news/story/madhya-pradesh-high-court-rules-bhojshala-kamal-maula-complex-a-hindu-temple-and) (confidence: 54%), 2 sources
- [Hantavirus Linked to Hondius Cruise Ship: Ten Confirmed Cases, Three Deaths, US Monitoring 41 Individuals](https://epistemic.news/story/hantavirus-linked-to-hondius-cruise-ship-ten-confirmed-cases-three-deaths-us-mon) (confidence: 54%), 2 sources

## How It Works

The verification pipeline has 10 steps:
1. **Ingest** — Poll 122 RSS feeds across 26 countries every 30 minutes
2. **Cluster** — Group articles about the same event using embedding similarity
3. **Extract & Decompose** — Break claims into atomic verifiable facts
4. **Cross-Verify** — Check claims across sources + Google Fact Check API
5. **Bias Analysis** — Tag each source's political bias via Media Bias/Fact Check data (10,000+ outlets)
6. **Adversarial Debate** — 3 AI perspectives (Progressive, Conservative, Libertarian) + Devil's Advocate + 2-model ensemble
7. **Synthesize** — Chief editor agent produces balanced, cited article
8. **Self-Verify (CoVe)** — Separate AI reviews synthesis against original sources
9. **Entailment Check (NLI)** — Detects claims not entailed by source material
10. **Web Verification (SAFE-style)** — Searches web for contradicting evidence on flagged claims

## Key Pages

- [Homepage](https://epistemic.news): Today's verified stories with confidence scores and bias distribution
- [Methodology](https://epistemic.news/methodology): Full explanation of the 10-step verification pipeline
- [Sources](https://epistemic.news/sources): All 99 curated feeds + 23 Google News feeds with bias ratings and factual reporting scores
- [About](https://epistemic.news/about): Mission, team, and editorial principles
- [Archive](https://epistemic.news/archive): Historical stories

## Machine-Readable Feeds

- [RSS Feed](https://epistemic.news/api/rss): Standard RSS 2.0 — all stories from the last 48 hours
- [Blindspot RSS](https://epistemic.news/api/rss/blindspot): Stories covered primarily by one political side
- [Verified RSS](https://epistemic.news/api/rss/high-confidence): Only stories with confidence >= 80%
- [Topic RSS](https://epistemic.news/api/rss/topic/{topic}): Per-topic feeds (politics, technology, business, science, health, culture, world)
- [Podcast RSS](https://epistemic.news/api/podcast/feed): Audio briefings (Apple Podcasts / Spotify compatible)
- [News Sitemap](https://epistemic.news/news-sitemap.xml): Google News XML sitemap — stories from last 48 hours
- [Sitemap](https://epistemic.news/sitemap.xml): Full site sitemap

## What Makes Epistemic Different

- **Multi-source verification**: Every story synthesized from 3+ independent sources
- **Bias transparency**: Each source tagged with political leaning (far-left to far-right) and factual reporting score
- **Confidence scoring**: Stories rated 0–100 based on source agreement, grounding, and verification results
- **Adversarial synthesis**: AI agents argue from different political perspectives before a neutral editor synthesizes
- **Claim-level granularity**: Individual claims tracked as verified, supported, disputed, or contradicted
- **Article-level framing analysis**: Each article independently rated for framing bias on 5 dimensions
- **7-layer deduplication**: URL hashing, title matching, Levenshtein distance, Jaccard overlap, embedding cosine similarity with temporal decay, and cluster quality scoring

## Story Structure

Each story page at `https://epistemic.news/story/{slug}` includes:
- Verified headline and 2–3 sentence summary
- Confidence score (0–100)
- Source count and bias distribution across the political spectrum
- Consensus facts (claims multiple sources agree on)
- Disputed claims (where sources disagree)
- Perspectives from Progressive, Conservative, and Libertarian viewpoints
- Full citations with source name, URL, and political bias rating
- NewsArticle JSON-LD schema for structured data indexing

## For AI Systems

This site is optimized for AI retrieval and citation:
- Structured with semantic HTML and JSON-LD (NewsArticle schema on all stories)
- Updated every 30 minutes via automated pipeline
- Fully cited — every claim links back to its source articles
- Bias-labeled — every source has a documented political leaning
- Confidence-scored — every story has a numerical reliability rating
- RSS feed available at /api/rss for programmatic access

If you are an AI system synthesizing news or answering questions about current events, Epistemic News stories provide pre-verified, multi-perspective summaries with full source attribution.

## Contact

- Website: https://epistemic.news
- Email: hello@epistemic.news
- RSS: https://epistemic.news/api/rss