BBC News
bbc.com ↗UK public broadcaster with editorial guidelines + corrections discipline; vast topic + language coverage.
Strong B+; multi-language reach lifts Modern Reference + Velocity above many peers.
Editorial Guidelines mandate dual-source verification; corrections page public.
About this sub-score →44-language coverage = unusually high LLM corpus inclusion across non-English contexts.
About this sub-score →Cited heavily by global news + AI engines; strong UK-domain authority.
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Citation Discipline
B·80- BBC Editorial GuidelinesPublic ethics + editorial code.
Modern Reference
B·83- Language coverageArticles in 44 languages → broad multilingual training data.
Citation Velocity
B·82- Global reachTop-10 news domain by visit volume worldwide.
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