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Provenance Watch

Confirmed, or just repeated?

A story carried by a dozen outlets can still rest on a single report. For this week’s most widely carried stories, here is how many outlets Citelink collected and how many independent origins remain once outlets running the same wire copy, the same passage or the same headline are counted once.

Computed automatically from the articles behind each published brief, with the same rules a verification report uses. How origins are counted

This week’s stories

  1. US lifts sanctions on Venezuela’s top legislator Jorge Rodriguez

    3 of the outlets trace to aljazeera.com — they carry the same passage verbatim. Follow the story

    Outlets
    6
    Independent origins
    4−2
  2. Brazil Senate shortens workweek ahead of tight presidential runoff

    3 of the outlets trace to aljazeera.com — they carry the same passage verbatim. Follow the story

    Outlets
    6
    Independent origins
    4−2
  3. Israel's general election ends in deadlock as high voter turnout yields no clear winner

    4 of the outlets trace to aljazeera.com — they run the same headline. Follow the story

    Outlets
    5
    Independent origins
    2−3
  4. Swing voters express regret over presidential vote ahead of midterm elections

    3 of the outlets trace to aljazeera.com — they carry the same passage verbatim. Follow the story

    Outlets
    5
    Independent origins
    3−2
  5. Localized Truce Begins in Southern Ukraine

    2 of the outlets trace to bbc.com — they carry the same passage verbatim. Follow the story

    Outlets
    5
    Independent origins
    4−1
  6. Ramaswamy faces Republican backlash and sliding poll numbers over controversial Ohio gubernatorial ad

    3 of the outlets trace to axios.com — they carry the same passage verbatim. Follow the story

    Outlets
    4
    Independent origins
    2−2
  7. Sally Rooney books withdrawn in UK over Palestine Action support

    3 of the outlets trace to bbc.com — they carry the same passage verbatim. Follow the story

    Outlets
    4
    Independent origins
    2−2
  8. Teenager Dies as Heavy Rain Floods Istanbul

    3 of the outlets trace to aljazeera.com — they carry the same passage verbatim. Follow the story

    Outlets
    4
    Independent origins
    2−2

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