Cross-Source News Synthesis
Cross-source news synthesis combining X and web sources with agreement, disagreement, and rigor grading.
Journalists and researchers building a fact base on a story that is being covered inconsistently across outlets.
Prompt
Using DeepSearch, pull news about [TOPIC] from the last 48 hours across X, mainstream outlets, and independent reporting. Deliver: 1. A unified timeline of what happened 2. Where reporting agrees across sources 3. Where reporting disagrees — and which sources are on which side 4. Facts that only appear in one source (flag these as weakly sourced) 5. The most rigorous single source I should actually read in full 6. Any context from older reporting that changes how I should read this Cite every source.
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💡Pro Tips
- •Separating agreement from disagreement is the most valuable output of multi-source analysis
- •Flagging single-source facts is a uniquely DeepSearch-shaped instruction
- •Asking for "context from older reporting" catches the pieces current coverage leaves out
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