News and web coverage
A name is searched across open news and web sources, and every article that comes back is read to work out what part the subject actually plays in it. Only articles where they are the one accused, or tied to someone who is, can raise the score; an article about a prosecutor, a victim or a quoted expert cannot. The result is a score out of 100 with the articles it was drawn from attached, so every number can be traced back to what produced it. Unlike every other category here, a finding is a judgement about open reporting rather than a designation by an authority — it is a reason to look further, never a determination.
What a record holds10 fields
These are the fields each article carries back. The assessment fields are absent where the automated review could not run, which the response reports plainly rather than passing off as a clean result.
- Headline
- title
- Link to the article
- url
- Publication it appeared in
- domain
- The passage the assessment was made from
- snippet
- Publication date, where the source gives one
- published_date
- Whether the article actually names the subject
- name_match
- The part the subject plays: accused, associate, enforcement, victim, commentator or unrelated
- assessment.role
- How serious the finding is, where there is one
- assessment.severity
- Predicate offences the article points to
- assessment.categories
- A line on what the article says about the subject
- assessment.note
A score here is a judgement about open reporting, not a designation by an authority. Treat a high one as a reason to investigate rather than as a finding, and read the articles it came back with — they are returned for exactly that reason.
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