How to tell reporting from an echo

Twenty outlets running the same story is not twenty confirmations. Most of the time it is one report, copied. This site exists to make that visible, and it does it with three counts and one measurement.

Voices, not headlines

A voice is an outlet that did its own reporting. A reprint is filed under the report it copies and not counted again. When a story page says three voices and forty reports, that is the ratio of journalism to echo.

Who was first

Each story names the first report that can actually carry the claim - not simply the earliest timestamp, which reprints and feeds routinely garble.

What changed after publishing

Headlines rewritten without a correction notice, articles quietly removed, URLs redirected elsewhere. We record what we observe, stamped with when we saw it.

How long it lasted

The measurement, and the only figure here that is fitted rather than counted: after a story peaks, how long it takes the rate of new reports to halve. It appears only on stories whose coverage actually decayed in a shape worth reporting, and while a story is still running it says so - the figure moves until the coverage stops.

What we don't do

No truth scores. No bias ratings. No generated text. A count you can check beats a verdict you have to trust, so every number on this site links to the articles it was counted from.

The words for what this measures - churnalism, pink slime, AI slop, news deserts - have their own short pages in the glossary. The counts themselves are on the front page.