News Blindspot
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News Blindspot
Detects open-data media coverage blindspots — topics heavily covered by one political side but undercovered by others. Uses GDELT, AllSides, and MBFC data only.
Pricing
Pay per usage
Detects open-data media coverage blindspots — topics heavily covered by one political side but undercovered by others. Uses GDELT, AllSides, and MBFC data only.
queriesarrayRequired
Search queries for GDELT
Default value of this property is ["climate change","immigration"]
sinceHoursintegerOptional
Lookback window (1–168 hours)
Default value of this property is 24
blindspotThresholdPctnumberOptional
Side must be below this % to flag (0–100)
Default value of this property is 20
gapMinPctnumberOptional
Minimum gap vs next side to flag (0–100)
Default value of this property is 12
maxRepUrlsPerSideintegerOptional
Representative URLs per side (1–20)
Default value of this property is 3
restrictToEnglishbooleanOptional
Filter to English sources via GDELT
Default value of this property is true
excludeUnknownFromBlindspotbooleanOptional
Use known-only shares for blindspot math
Default value of this property is true
overridesPathstringOptional
Path to overrides JSON: { "example.com": "left|center|right" }
Default value of this property is "./bias-overrides.json"
enableLearningbooleanOptional
Enable conservative alias learning
Default value of this property is true
learningMinCountintegerOptional
Min samples to learn alias (2–100)
Default value of this property is 3
learningMinConsistencynumberOptional
Min consistency to learn alias (0–1)
Default value of this property is 0.8
suggestionsMaxintegerOptional
Max override suggestions to emit
Default value of this property is 15
suggestionsMinCountintegerOptional
Min count for override suggestions
Default value of this property is 2
enableLlmWeakLabelerbooleanOptional
Enable LLM weak labeler (OFF by default, recommended)
Default value of this property is false
llmMaxDomainsintegerOptional
Max domains to label with LLM
Default value of this property is 15
llmMinCountintegerOptional
Min articles per domain for LLM labeling
Default value of this property is 3
llmConfidenceThresholdnumberOptional
LLM confidence threshold (0–1)
Default value of this property is 0.8
llmMarginThresholdnumberOptional
LLM margin threshold (0–1)
Default value of this property is 0.12
llmSampleTitlesPerDomainintegerOptional
Sample titles per domain for LLM
Default value of this property is 8
forceRefreshCachebooleanOptional
Force refresh of bias cache
Default value of this property is false
