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I added the divergence layer today, which surfaces how outlets with different political leans frame the same underlying fact rather than just whether the fact is accurate. I first tried scraping lean ratings from AllSides at runtime but scrapped it after 45 minutes because it was fragile, probably against their ToS, and too slow for a per-request lookup. I replaced it with a hardcoded lookup table sourced from Ad Fontes Media data covering about 40 major outlets, where anything not in the table returns “Unknown” rather than a guess. Testing it on a border crossings story came back with CNN describing the encounter numbers as a humanitarian crisis, Fox describing the same numbers as a Biden policy failure, and the DHS primary source showing the raw figure all three were citing.

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