Why Prism exists
News is one-sided because you only ever see one side.
A side is a narrative: a political story has two narrations, and most readers only ever hear one of them. Prism merges the many reports of one real event into a single canonical story and shows the competing narratives side by side — backed by deliberately diverse sourcing across many origin countries and transparency labels on every outlet, so you always know who is speaking. Then you decide.
What the labels mean
The outlet is funded or editorially directed by a government. Its reporting still counts — you just always know who's speaking.
Publicly funded with editorial independence mandates (BBC, DW). Distinct from state-affiliated — the difference matters, so we label both.
Every source on the story shares one origin country. You're seeing one side because only one side is speaking — the blindspot flag.
The story involves or is covered from your region. Your feed blends these with international coverage — never one without the other.
Nothing without provenance
Every extracted value — a CVSS score, a ticker, a casualty count — keeps a link to the exact source that evidenced it. The Ask agent answers only from a story's own sources, cites them by number, and refuses what they don't cover. Refusal is styled with the same dignity as an answer, because knowing the limits of the evidence is the product.