Methodology
LegitNews combines curated source intake, editorial records, translation support, and ranking heuristics to present a faster global-news overview without pretending every signal is equally important. The public surface is shaped by filtering and editorial usefulness, not only by publication time.
Inputs
The system blends approved stored events with a curated live-source pool. Regional diversity matters, so the public product is not intended to depend only on US and UK publishers.
Ranking
Story order reflects confidence, recency, source quality, verification state, brief richness, source diversity, and geographic spread rather than raw publication time alone.
Topic lanes
Markets, Conflicts, Policy, and Science lanes group related stories into clearer reader journeys so users can scan developments by theme instead of only by a single ranked list.
Reader-facing metadata
The product uses canonical URLs, social tags, trust cues, explanatory labels, and public policy pages so readers can understand what each screen represents and how the content was handled.
How a story reaches the public site
- Sources enter through the curated live pool or approved stored records.
- Titles and summaries are cleaned so raw feed formatting does not become the public reading experience.
- Duplicates and low-quality variants are reduced before a story is surfaced prominently.
- Ranking signals help order items by usefulness, urgency, and source quality.
- Only approved and verified items are intended for the public homepage.
What the ranking tries to balance
- Freshness, so readers see what is moving now.
- Source quality and attribution, so the original reporting remains visible.
- Geographic spread, so the map is not dominated by one country or newsroom cycle.
- Brief richness, so promoted items offer enough context to justify a public slot.
- Duplication control, so repeated versions of the same story do not crowd out other developments.
Translations and summaries
LegitNews can translate and summarize material for Polish and English readers, but the public goal is still clarity rather than machine verbosity. Summaries should help a reader understand why an item matters without replacing the original source.
Limitations
No automated pipeline is perfect. A fast global-news product can still miss context, under-rank a developing story, or need a correction after a source updates its reporting. That is why visible attribution, editorial review, and update paths matter as much as automation.