How the Dextape wire works
Find the publisher, read the preview and check the original evidence before you trust a headline.
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The wire collects stories from public publisher feeds and keeps each one’s publisher, timestamp and original link. Automated collection helps you find coverage quickly. It does not mean Dextape has independently checked every claim in a story.
Key takeaways
- Each wire item is a preview: the headline, up to 60 words of the publisher’s own summary and a link to the full story.
- The full story, with its corrections and updates, stays on the publisher’s site.
- Publication time and event time can differ. Check both.
- For a material claim, find the primary evidence behind it.
Preview, then the original
A wire page is labeled “Publisher preview”. It shows the headline, the publisher’s own summary, cut to at most 60 words, and a link to the full story on the publisher’s site. Dextape does not republish the article. The full text, its corrections and its later updates live with the publisher, so open the original before relying on the details.
Check two times: when the story was published and when the event it describes happened. A newly published article can describe older news, and a fast-moving story can change after the preview was collected.
What Dextape adds, and how it is labeled
Some wire pages carry extra context. A brief, where one appears, is machine-written only from the publisher’s text and says so, with a link to how Dextape writes. A desk note explains why a type of story can matter and is labeled as not Dextape reporting. The page may also list the coins and companies the story mentions. None of these additions verifies the publisher’s claims.
Where the wire appears
The same attributed items feed the news page, site search, beat pages and the news rail in Terminal. Wherever a story appears, it carries the publisher’s name and links back to the original.
Check the evidence
For a material claim, find what it rests on: a filing, an official announcement, an on-chain transaction or a named source. Compare what that evidence establishes with what the headline says. A headline that reads “Company to do X” may rest on a report that the company is only considering it.
- Is the source primary, or is the story quoting another outlet?
- Is the event new, or is the article a fresh write-up of older news?
- Has the publisher updated or corrected the story since it was published?
- Do other outlets report the same facts from their own sources?
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