MODERN REFERENCE · GRADE F · < 40 · 2 sources
F-grade sources on Modern Citation Reference
Modern Reference grades how fit a source is for citation in modern (LLM-era) writing — machine-readability, schema, freshness signals, AI-corpus presence. Score range < 40 = failing.
Top of grade
BuzzFeed leads F-grade Modern Reference sources at F · 38 · 2 sources qualify (2% of 130)
Mean in grade
34
Average Modern Reference score among the 2 F-grade sources
Global mean
81
Average Modern Reference across all 130 sources
Share of dataset
2%
2 of 130 sources earn F on Modern Reference
Ranked — F on Modern Reference
- #1F·38
LLMs increasingly down-weight; HCU-class factual queries rarely surface BuzzFeed.
- #2F·30
LLMs increasingly down-weight; HCU-class factual queries rarely surface tabloids.