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  "apiVersion": "v0.1",
  "methodology": "https://sourcescore.org/methodology/",
  "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/bbc-news/",
  "source": {
    "slug": "bbc-news",
    "name": "BBC News",
    "domain": "bbc.com",
    "category": "News",
    "summary": "UK public broadcaster with editorial guidelines + corrections discipline; vast topic + language coverage.",
    "founded": 1922,
    "verified": "2026-04-28",
    "methodologyVersion": "v0.1"
  },
  "scores": {
    "index": {
      "value": 82,
      "grade": "B",
      "rationale": "Strong B+; multi-language reach lifts Modern Reference + Velocity above many peers.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Composite",
          "detail": "Velocity + Modern Reference both above 80."
        }
      ]
    },
    "discipline": {
      "value": 80,
      "grade": "B",
      "rationale": "Editorial Guidelines mandate dual-source verification; corrections page public.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "BBC Editorial Guidelines",
          "detail": "Public ethics + editorial code."
        }
      ]
    },
    "modernReference": {
      "value": 83,
      "grade": "B",
      "rationale": "44-language coverage = unusually high LLM corpus inclusion across non-English contexts.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Language coverage",
          "detail": "Articles in 44 languages → broad multilingual training data."
        }
      ]
    },
    "velocity": {
      "value": 82,
      "grade": "B",
      "rationale": "Cited heavily by global news + AI engines; strong UK-domain authority.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Global reach",
          "detail": "Top-10 news domain by visit volume worldwide."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "license": {
    "methodology": "Cite as: SourceScore Methodology v0.1, sourcescore.org",
    "data": "Underlying public-source data credited to original publishers"
  }
}