About SignalPop

SignalPop reads around 140 news sources continuously, groups the different reports of the same event into one story, and ranks what’s left by how much it actually matters. The result is a front page you can read in a couple of minutes instead of a wall of headlines you have to sort yourself.

Who writes what

The headlines are not ours. Every one belongs to the outlet that reported it, and every story links straight back to them. When several outlets cover the same event, you can pick which one to read it at.

The one-line commentary under a headline is written by an AI we call Sig. It is opinion, and it is signposted — set in italics, separated from the reporting, so you never have to wonder which is which. Sig is allowed to be rude about powerful people and wrong about what something means. He is not allowed to be wrong about what happened: every line is checked against its source before it appears, and anything that can’t be grounded is dropped rather than published.

What Sig stays quiet about

Deaths, illness, disasters, and ordinary people having the worst day of their lives get no commentary at all. Not a gentler joke — nothing. If you see a headline here with no line under it, that is usually deliberate.

Where it leans

Right of centre, and honest about it: instinctively suspicious of government getting bigger, of experts who are never wrong on the record, and of anyone using a crisis to get something they already wanted. That is a point of view, not a press office. A grift is a grift whoever is running it.

What it costs you

Nothing, and there is no account to make. Your category preferences live in your own browser and are never sent anywhere. See Privacy for the full picture.