Transparency Explanations
Not available yet. MAP does not assess how a story was produced; a record describes what is visible on one page.
Transparency Explanations, in the sense of plain-language breakdowns of how a story was sourced and verified, are not available. MAP does not assess how a story was produced.
What MAP does today is state, in plain sentences, what it extracted for each frame of a record — including when a frame has little or nothing to report.
A record written in plain sentences
Each of the seven frames (origin, attribution, specificity, timing, framing, context change and information relationships) is written as a plain-language sentence traceable to something extracted from the page. Gaps are disclosed rather than papered over.
Available · part of each recordWhat a record does not say
A record does not say which claims in a story are supported, what was verified, whether comment was sought from the people named, or what is missing from the coverage. It is a point-in-time snapshot generated automatically, with no per-record human review. MAP does not verify, score or rate content.
Applies to each recordHow a story was produced
Explanations of how a story was sourced and verified, claim-by-claim support, and reviews of what a story leaves out are not available. MAP cannot see how a story was produced; it only reads the published page.
Not available yetA MAP record describes what was observable on one URL at one moment. It is not an assessment of the reporting. Read it as a description of the page, and look elsewhere for judgments about whether the reporting is right.
Part of MAP Context™
Transparency Explanations is one of five MAP Context™ module pages. Try the single-URL record with Check a URL → or read the Methodology →.
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