Observed arrival · 2026-10-19
Gegenprobe: a counter-check for ARD coverage
A tool for examining tagesschau.de and ARD articles against their own standards, separating reporting from commentary and checking quotations against an archived version.
- For
- Readers auditing German public-broadcast news coverage
- Worth noticing
- Its sample protocol separates counted findings from a disputed “boundary case,” which it says does not affect the verdict.
Field notes
The checker accepts a headline and stand line, with an optional article URL; the page says it can locate the tagesschau.de piece from the headline and save a version to the Internet Archive. It says a result enters the public register only when every quotation matches the archived version, and that neither submitted text nor submitter identity is published. A sample protocol separates findings from a boundary case; the page labels the assessment as model-generated, not a committee decision.
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