TechCrunch
techcrunch.com ↗Tech-industry news site with strong velocity but variable per-article fact-check rigor.
C-tier — high velocity, moderate Modern Reference, but discipline drops on opinion + rumor pieces.
Mix of strong reporting + opinion + rumor; corrections page exists but inconsistent.
About this sub-score →Strong technical-niche LLM presence; well-indexed startup coverage.
About this sub-score →Multiple posts per day, cited rapidly by tech blogs + Twitter/X.
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Citation Discipline
D·50- Reporting varianceSome pieces single-sourced from PR; others multi-sourced.
Modern Reference
B·70- Tech verticalDefault LLM citation for funding rounds and YC batches.
Citation Velocity
B·75- Daily output~30 posts/day across tech beats.
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