Understanding the Analysis

Open any story on OCN News and you'll find it wrapped in numbers, badges, and small charts. None of it is there to tell you what to think — it's there to show you how a story is built, so you can read with a little more discernment. Here's what each measure means, in plain language.

At a Glance

A quick, AI-written brief of the story — the who, what, when, where, why, and how — plus a one-line summary and any key figures it mentions. It's there so you can grasp a story in seconds and decide whether to read the whole thing.

Is it substance, or filler? — Article Quality

Five ways a story can push — Influence Pathways

Persuasion doesn't work just one way. We break it into five routes, each scored 0–100.

For the first four, higher means more manipulation. Quality is the exception — there, higher is good.

The emotional tone — Sentiment

Slant behind a straight face — Stealth Manipulation

The most persuasive bias is the kind you never notice — because it never raises its voice.

Some articles wear their agenda openly, with loaded words and obvious outrage. Others do something quieter and far more effective: they keep every hallmark of sober, professional journalism — calm tone, careful attribution, an air of balance — while steadily steering you toward a conclusion. This is the slant that survives a skim, the one that feels like “just the facts” precisely because nothing in it trips the alarm.

This reading looks for those fingerprints. One-sided sourcing — a piece that quotes three voices for one position and a lone, hedged sentence for the other, while never appearing unfair. Framing by omission — the context left on the cutting-room floor, the question conspicuously never asked. Strategic hedging — “critics say,” “some argue,” “it remains unclear” — phrases that quietly discredit one side while keeping the writer's hands clean. And the subtler tells of selective emphasis, where what's true and what's foregrounded quietly part ways.

You'll see an overall score, a severity level, the specific techniques detected with a short note on how each one works, and a flag when the sourcing itself leans one way. None of it means a story is false — only that it may be doing more shaping than its even tone lets on. Read it, and read the other side too.

Has the story changed? — Article History

How many times a story has been edited since it was first published — and, crucially, how many of those were stealth edits: silent changes made without telling readers. If a piece has been quietly rewritten after the fact, you'll see it here.

Tone and safety — Content Safety

A simple content rating (much like a film's G through X) based on language and tone, plus a toxicity reading — a quick sense of what you're walking into.

Who and what — Entities & Related Articles

Across languages — Translation

Many Orthodox voices publish in Greek, Russian, Romanian, and other languages. When a story isn't in English, we translate and summarize it for you — and always tell you the original language.

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