How this site works

Hear it from those involved. For each major international story, Glade finds the countries and players at its centre and shows what they said, as outlets reported it, in their own words. Where facts and opinions differ, it shows them side by side. It gathers coverage from outlets in the countries involved and around the world (54 outlets in 33 countries so far) and links everything to the original reporting.

Glade News is a non-commercial research prototype.

What comes from the outlets

Words in quotation marks are the speaker's own, as a source quoted them. Headlines are the outlets' own (machine-translated where marked), and each links to its article. We don't reproduce verbatim reporting: anything else an outlet reported appears as our one-sentence summary, credited to the outlet. For quotes in other languages we show a summary, with the original words and a machine translation visible when selected. Photos and logos load from the publishers' own sites.

What is automated

The rest comes from an automated language-processing pipeline. Classifiers sort the articles and match reports that cover the same event. Language models pick out who said what and who each speaker is, translate non-English headlines and quotes, and write the titles, summaries, labels and short descriptions from the outlets' reporting. Nobody reviews individual pages, so there may be mistakes.

Descriptions say what an outlet reported, not whether it was right. Our outlets aren't a representative sample of the world's press, and some countries in a story have no outlet among them.

Corrections and privacy

We fix mistakes when we find them or are told of them, and list them on the corrections page. Report one to contact@glade.news; feedback and questions are welcome there too.

We don't train AI models on the articles. This site sets no cookies; it counts visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which is cookieless and doesn't track you across sites. Your browser remembers your light or dark theme and whether you closed the introduction on the front page; that stays on your device.

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