MODERN REFERENCE · 30% of composite
Le Monde — Modern Reference
lemonde.fr · News
Modern Reference grades how fit a source is for citation in modern (LLM-era) writing. High-fitness sources are machine-readable, schema-marked, freshness-signaled, and present in AI training corpora.
B·70
B · 70
Hard paywall on most articles; English edition open; structured data on free portion.
What drives this Modern Reference score
- Paywall limitationMost reporting paywalled; reduces LLM training-corpus inclusion.
Global rank
#114 of 130
By Modern Reference across all SourceScore sources
In-category rank
#20 of 27
Among news sources
Vs. averages
Cat. mean: 77
Global mean: 81
Global mean: 81
-7 below category