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Every claim sourced. Every perspective labeled. News verified by AI, never edited by humans.

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About Epistemic News

What we are, why we exist, and how we're different.

What is epistemic news?

Epistemic comes from the Greek epistēmē — knowledge, understanding. Not just "what happened" but "what do we actually know, and how confident should we be?"

Most news tells you what sources say. We tell you what the evidence supports, where sources agree, where they disagree, and what nobody is covering. Every claim is traced to its origin. Every perspective is labeled. Confidence is calibrated, not performed.

How does the 10-step pipeline work?

1. Ingest — Poll 99 curated feeds + 23 Google News topics across 26 countries every 30 minutes
2. Cluster — Group articles about the same event using AI embeddings with quality scoring
3. Extract & Decompose — Break every claim into atomic verifiable facts (names, dates, stats, quotes)
4. Cross-Verify — Check claims across sources + Google Fact Check API for prior fact-checks
5. Bias Analysis — Tag each source's bias using Media Bias/Fact Check data
6. Adversarial Debate — Three AI agents (Progressive, Conservative, Libertarian) + a Devil's Advocate argue the story with 2-model ensemble voting
7. Synthesize — A chief editor agent produces one balanced, cited article
8. Self-Verify — Chain-of-Verification: a separate AI reviews the synthesis against sources for factual errors
9. Entailment Check — NLI-based detection flags any claim not entailed by source articles
10. Web Verification — Suspicious claims are independently verified via web search (SAFE-style)

What makes this different?

vs. Ground News

Them: Shows you 50 articles side by side. You draw conclusions.

Us: We run adversarial AI debate and produce one balanced article with cited claims and confidence scores.

vs. 1440 / Morning Brew

Them: Human editors pick stories and summarize them. No methodology transparency.

Us: Automated pipeline with full source transparency. Every claim traceable. Methodology fully documented.

vs. AllSides / The Flip Side

Them: Show left and right takes on one story per day.

Us: We do this for every major story, automatically, with a Devil's Advocate that challenges all three perspectives.

Who built this?

Epistemic News is built by Wunderlich Web, a veteran-owned custom-web-development brand. Every claim is traceable, every source is transparent, and the methodology is fully documented.

We believe the best defense against media bias isn't hiding it — it's making it visible, measurable, and accountable. If our pipeline has a blind spot, we want to know. If our synthesis is wrong, the sources are right there for you to check.

Our values

Epistemic humility— "We might be wrong" is strength, not weakness.
Source transparency— Every claim links to its origin.
Perspective plurality— No single lens captures the whole picture.
Confidence calibration— Don't be more certain than the evidence warrants.
Adversarial verification— Challenge everything, including your own framing.