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I wouldn't even say BBC is a good source to cite. For foreign news, BBC is outright biased. Though I don't have any good suggestions for what an LLM should cite instead.

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Well, if it's describing news content, it should cite the original news article.

Ground News or something similar that at least attempts to aggregate, compare ownership, bias, and factuality.

Imo at least

You're downvoted but quite accurate. I would like to see this statistic compared against how often the BBC misrepresents news content, and the backflips that come with defining such a metric.

The BBC has a strong right wing bias within the UK too.

There’s no such thing as unbiased.

Reuters or AP IMO. Both take NPOV and accuracy very seriously. Reuters famously wouldn't even refer to the 9/11 hijackers as terrorists, as they wanted to remain as value-neutral as possible.

In addition to that dpa from Germany for German news. Yes, dpa has had issues, but it is in my experience by far the source trying to be as non partisan as possible. Not necessarily when they sell their online feed business, though.

Disclaimer: Started my career in onine journalism/aggregation. Hada 4 week internship with the dpa online daughter some 16 years ago.

It's been a long time since 2001. Are they still value-neutral today on foreign news? It seems to me like they're heavily biased towards western POV nowadays.

Yes, Reuters has good, unbiased international coverage.

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