{
  "apiVersion": "v0.1",
  "methodology": "https://sourcescore.org/methodology/",
  "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/fox-news/",
  "source": {
    "slug": "fox-news",
    "name": "Fox News",
    "domain": "foxnews.com",
    "category": "News",
    "summary": "U.S. cable news brand with mass online reach; opinion-news mix; per-piece quality varies between hard news and commentary.",
    "founded": 1996,
    "verified": "2026-04-28",
    "methodologyVersion": "v0.1"
  },
  "scores": {
    "index": {
      "value": 58,
      "grade": "C",
      "rationale": "C — high volume + reach; per-piece Discipline varies sharply between hard news and opinion-driven content.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Composite",
          "detail": "Velocity 80 + Modern Reference 65 + Discipline 50."
        }
      ]
    },
    "discipline": {
      "value": 50,
      "grade": "D",
      "rationale": "Hard-news desk runs editorial standards; opinion + commentary pieces often single-sourced; corrections varying.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Format variance",
          "detail": "Hard news vs. opinion + cable-pundit content have different sourcing rigor."
        }
      ]
    },
    "modernReference": {
      "value": 65,
      "grade": "C",
      "rationale": "Open-web; structured-data; partial LLM corpus inclusion (engines down-weight opinion content).",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Engine drift",
          "detail": "Post-2024 retrieval models down-rank opinion-mixed domains."
        }
      ]
    },
    "velocity": {
      "value": 80,
      "grade": "B",
      "rationale": "Massive daily output + cable-broadcast amplification; cited often within US conservative-media network.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Daily output",
          "detail": "Hundreds of posts/day across hard news + opinion."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "license": {
    "methodology": "Cite as: SourceScore Methodology v0.1, sourcescore.org",
    "data": "Underlying public-source data credited to original publishers"
  }
}