Transparency
How NBT Wires works, where every rating comes from, and what we will never do. See also the outlet registry.
What NBT Wires is
NBT Wires is the media-literacy layer of the NBT Platform. It aggregates the same story from outlets across the political spectrum and shows how each frames it — so you see the whole picture, not one feed's version. It is open source (Apache 2.0), free forever, has no corporate owner, no paywall, and no ads.
Where bias & factuality ratings come from
NBT Wires does notrate outlets itself. Each outlet's label summarizes the published ratings of three independent organizations, and every outlet page lists the exact ratings used:
- AllSides Media Bias Ratings — blind surveys, editorial reviews, community feedback
- Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC) — bias plus a separate factual-reporting score
- Ad Fontes Media — multi-analyst panels rating bias and reliability
Where raters disagree, the consensus rating is shown and all source ratings are listed. The registry lives in one open-source file (lib/outlets.ts) — anyone can audit it or submit a correction.
How stories are grouped
Articles are pulled from each outlet's public RSS feed and clustered by headline similarity using a deliberately simple, auditable token-overlap algorithm — no black-box ranking, no engagement optimization, no personalization. Stories are ordered by how many outlets cover them. A blindspot flag appears when one side of the spectrum has little or no coverage of a story the other side is reporting.
How NBT Mind analysis works
The per-story chat sends your question plus the full-spectrum coverage (headline, outlet, bias label, link for each article) to your NBT Mind node. Mind's source-enforcement layer requires every claim to cite sources; answers are labeled live when they come from a running node, or offline digest when they are computed locally from feed data alone. The platform itself never editorializes — it presents evidence.
Decentralization & permanence
Every article offers permanent archive links (Wayback Machine, archive.today) and can be pinned to IPFS when a local node is configured (
IPFS_API_URL), making coverage content-addressed and censorship-resistant. Arweave support is planned. Detected entity relationships are submitted to NBT Links as pending — never as verified — for community review with evidence URLs.Non-negotiables
- Every story shows original sources; analysis is fully traceable
- No editorializing by the platform — evidence only
- No corporate owner, no paywall, free forever
- No censorship within legal bounds
- Apache 2.0 — fork it, audit it, improve it