What it is
The news you read was chosen for you — someone picked the topic, the angle, the sources. Independent Wire is an open-source AI pipeline that produces multi-perspective news dossiers with full source transparency. It scans sources across many language streams, shows where coverage diverges, documents which voices are missing, and publishes everything — including its own biases and limitations. No publisher, no engagement algorithm, no hidden editorial line.
How it works
A pipeline of specialized AI agents, orchestrated by deterministic Python — no LLM decides what happens next. Each stage does one job: discover the day’s topics, research the spectrum of positions, write a source-attributed article, fact-check every claim, and mark linguistic bias. The output is not an article but a Topic Package: the article plus the perspectives, the divergences, what is missing, and a bias card. Every prompt the system runs lives openly in the repository — readable, forkable, under the same licence as the code.
What it is not
Not a chatbot, not an aggregator, not a replacement for investigative journalism. It cannot meet whistleblowers or visit a factory. And it is not neutral — nothing is. The models carry their training bias; the system offers not the absence of bias but transparency about where it lies. Source balance is uneven too: Western and English-language sources are over-represented. This is documented, not hidden — and improving it is an open workstream.