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Bota

Bota

About Bota

Bota is a daily world briefing. Every morning a new edition summarises the state of the day in geopolitics, economy and technology: read from around 45 deliberately opposing sources across all political camps and world regions.

The goal is not the one correct view, but a picture assembled from many perspectives. Reading Bota should show you what the camps argue about, and what they nevertheless agree on.

Methodology

Deliberately opposing sources

Around 45 newspapers and outlets from all camps: Western and non-Western, state-affiliated and government-critical, left and right. The selection is deliberately built so that the sources can contradict each other.

AI-assisted editorial process

An AI-assisted editorial process reads the sources, groups reports into events and summarises them. Every summary names its sources: each statement remains traceable to the underlying reporting.

No source counts as neutral

Bota treats no source as neutral, including Western ones. Every source has a perspective and interests of its own. It is read as the voice of a camp, not as a referee.

What counts as a fact

A fact is what opposing camps agree on. When sources that usually stand against each other report the same thing, that is the most reliable confirmation news can offer.

Forecasts with a public hit rate

For important events, Bota makes forecasts with probabilities. Whether they come true is evaluated later, and the hit rate is publicly visible on every topic.