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  "apiVersion": "v0.1",
  "methodology": "https://sourcescore.org/methodology/",
  "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/huffpost/",
  "source": {
    "slug": "huffpost",
    "name": "HuffPost",
    "domain": "huffpost.com",
    "category": "News",
    "summary": "U.S. news + opinion site since 2005; mix of staff reporting + contributor blogs (now-discontinued).",
    "founded": 2005,
    "verified": "2026-04-28",
    "methodologyVersion": "v0.1"
  },
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    "index": {
      "value": 60,
      "grade": "C",
      "rationale": "C — mass volume + open-web; staff reporting strong but legacy contributor content drags Discipline.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Composite",
          "detail": "Velocity 76 + Modern Reference 65 + Discipline 50."
        }
      ]
    },
    "discipline": {
      "value": 50,
      "grade": "D",
      "rationale": "Staff articles strong; legacy contributor blogs (now archived) varying quality; corrections public.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Legacy contributor content",
          "detail": "Pre-2018 contributor articles still indexed; varying sourcing."
        }
      ]
    },
    "modernReference": {
      "value": 65,
      "grade": "C",
      "rationale": "Open-web; broad LLM corpus inclusion; engines increasingly down-weight contributor pieces.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Open-web",
          "detail": "Full corpus available; mixed quality drags weighting."
        }
      ]
    },
    "velocity": {
      "value": 76,
      "grade": "B",
      "rationale": "High daily output across news + lifestyle + politics; cited within US news ecosystem.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Daily output",
          "detail": "~50-100 posts/day across all sections."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "license": {
    "methodology": "Cite as: SourceScore Methodology v0.1, sourcescore.org",
    "data": "Underlying public-source data credited to original publishers"
  }
}