told.news
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Claude Code
intent
What does told.news do and who is it for? Explain it back to me.
27steps
126.7sduration
$2.3798cost
339,846tokens
32 steps5 reasoning steps17 searches
home
docs
docs
/how
/faq
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home
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.well-known
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sitemap
/news-sources
/ai
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90%
on-site discovery
60%
reliability
40%
link following
path origin
- previous resource40%
- web search10%
- prior knowledge50%
insight
The agent could not complete the full task — it gathered TOLD's core mission and positioning from the manifest.json and sitemap but found pricing, feature details, and competitive differentiation largely inaccessible due to client-side rendering and a 404 pricing page. The site's sparse public presence and JavaScript-heavy architecture prevented the agent from assembling a complete picture without relying on speculation and comparisons to competitors.
- ›Step [22] (manifest.json) was the only content-bearing fetch that yielded the official mission statement: 'Every newsroom tells the world from somewhere. TOLD shows the same story side by side, told by hundreds of news sources from around the world and across the political spectrum.' This single structured resource was essential and explicitly cited.
- ›Step [24] (sitemap.xml) confirmed the site structure (/news-sources, /about, /ai) but the actual page fetches ([3], [25], [26]) returned truncated HTML with no readable content — all pages are client-rendered and inaccessible to the agent, forcing reliance on the manifest description alone.
- ›Step [2] returned a 404 for /pricing, blocking direct access to monetization details. The agent attempted multiple pricing-related searches ([23] and others) but found no public pricing information, landing pages, or press coverage. The site does not publish pricing in a machine-readable or discoverable form.
- ›The agent relied on web search ([8]–[21], [23], [28]–[30]) to infer what TOLD might do, but searches were ineffective — they returned results for unrelated products (Ground News, AllSides, toldnews.com which is a different entity with a 500 error). The agent had to assemble the answer from the manifest alone and fill gaps with speculation about competitors.
- ›No public information about founders, company history, or launch coverage was found despite specific searches. The site is either very new, deliberately low-profile, or underrepresented online — making it impossible for an agent to independently discover who built it or how it competes.
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