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  "apiVersion": "v0.1",
  "methodology": "https://sourcescore.org/methodology/",
  "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/daily-mail/",
  "source": {
    "slug": "daily-mail",
    "name": "Daily Mail",
    "domain": "dailymail.co.uk",
    "category": "Tabloid",
    "summary": "British tabloid with mass volume + celebrity coverage; high-volume + low-discipline mix; Wikipedia restricts as source since 2017.",
    "founded": 1896,
    "verified": "2026-04-28",
    "methodologyVersion": "v0.1"
  },
  "scores": {
    "index": {
      "value": 38,
      "grade": "F",
      "rationale": "D — high volume but Discipline drops on tabloid-format reporting; restricted as a source on Wikipedia since 2017.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Composite",
          "detail": "Velocity 72 cannot rescue Discipline 22 + Modern Reference 30."
        }
      ]
    },
    "discipline": {
      "value": 22,
      "grade": "F",
      "rationale": "Wikipedia community deprecated as a source in 2017 for poor fact-checking + sensationalism + fabrication concerns.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Wikipedia 2017 RfC",
          "detail": "Community consensus banned the Daily Mail as a reliable source on Wikipedia."
        },
        {
          "label": "IPSO complaints",
          "detail": "High frequency of UK regulator complaints upheld."
        }
      ]
    },
    "modernReference": {
      "value": 30,
      "grade": "F",
      "rationale": "LLMs increasingly down-weight; HCU-class factual queries rarely surface tabloids.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Engine drift",
          "detail": "Post-2024 retrieval models penalize low-discipline tabloid domains."
        }
      ]
    },
    "velocity": {
      "value": 72,
      "grade": "B",
      "rationale": "Massive output + UK + US editions; cited often in entertainment + celebrity coverage but rarely as factual source.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Daily output",
          "detail": "Hundreds of posts/day across all editions."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "license": {
    "methodology": "Cite as: SourceScore Methodology v0.1, sourcescore.org",
    "data": "Underlying public-source data credited to original publishers"
  }
}