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  "methodology": "https://sourcescore.org/methodology/",
  "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/techcrunch/",
  "source": {
    "slug": "techcrunch",
    "name": "TechCrunch",
    "domain": "techcrunch.com",
    "category": "Tech News",
    "summary": "Tech-industry news site with strong velocity but variable per-article fact-check rigor.",
    "founded": 2005,
    "verified": "2026-04-28",
    "methodologyVersion": "v0.1"
  },
  "scores": {
    "index": {
      "value": 64,
      "grade": "C",
      "rationale": "C-tier — high velocity, moderate Modern Reference, but discipline drops on opinion + rumor pieces.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Composite",
          "detail": "Velocity 75 holds it up; discipline 50 drags it down."
        }
      ]
    },
    "discipline": {
      "value": 50,
      "grade": "D",
      "rationale": "Mix of strong reporting + opinion + rumor; corrections page exists but inconsistent.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Reporting variance",
          "detail": "Some pieces single-sourced from PR; others multi-sourced."
        }
      ]
    },
    "modernReference": {
      "value": 70,
      "grade": "B",
      "rationale": "Strong technical-niche LLM presence; well-indexed startup coverage.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Tech vertical",
          "detail": "Default LLM citation for funding rounds and YC batches."
        }
      ]
    },
    "velocity": {
      "value": 75,
      "grade": "B",
      "rationale": "Multiple posts per day, cited rapidly by tech blogs + Twitter/X.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Daily output",
          "detail": "~30 posts/day across tech beats."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
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    "methodology": "Cite as: SourceScore Methodology v0.1, sourcescore.org",
    "data": "Underlying public-source data credited to original publishers"
  }
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