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METHODOLOGY

Pipeline

Four editions a day: ~152 feeds across 19 languages are crawled — Western mainstream and wires, Western right and left, non-Western state and independent, regional outlets on every continent, the financial press, crypto and science press, and primary market data (central banks, BLS/BEA/EIA, OFAC sanctions, Treasury, OPEC, IMF). A fast model triages every article for importance and market relevance; a deep model then clusters the top slate, rewrites headlines into neutral factual form, scores real-world impact, and compares how each event is covered bloc-by-bloc.

Buried & reframed flags

BURIED: an important story carried by one media bloc but absent or thin in another that would be expected to cover it — verified independently against the GDELT global news index and labeled "confirmed" or "not confirmed" with the article counts shown. REFRAMED: both sides cover it, but agency/accountability is altered (e.g. "X struck Y" vs "an explosion occurred"). Flags are never dropped or promoted by the ranking — ordering is strictly by significance.

Edge score

The ⚡ edge badge is deliberately strict: a story earns it only when it is both genuinely buried (verified, not merely thin in our sample) and clearly market-moving. A widely-covered story is already priced in and scores zero edge no matter how important, and importance alone is never edge. So the edge badge means one specific thing — "the market can't see this yet, and it matters" — rather than dramatic-looking headlines. Everything else is simply briefed and ranked by real-world impact.

Blindspot Index

The share of an edition's market-relevant weight (importance × market impact) that is genuinely under-covered, scaled 0–100. 0 = everything tradable is covered across blocs; higher = more of it is buried. Bands: <25 Low, 25–49 Elevated, 50–74 High, 75+ Severe.

Zero-bias method

Every outlet is treated as equally unreliable; contested claims are attributed, never asserted; no loaded language; identical scrutiny for allies and adversaries. Coverage counts are reported as data, not as truth claims about any outlet's motives.

Limits

An AI analyst can err in clustering, translation and judgement; GDELT is a partial index; coverage asymmetry can have benign causes (time zones, editorial focus). Original sources are linked on every story — verify before acting. Nothing here is investment advice.