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HEGEMON
Every major event becomes many stories. Rival outlets push competing framings of the same facts, and some win out, quietly shaping what most people end up believing happened.
Hegemon maps that contest.
Prototype A live cartography of the Russia–Ukraine news coverage from to . The map updates every 6 hours and evolves according to topics covered by 367 outlets from 146 countries.
A map of the news coverage itself, not of the geographic world. Each dot – an atom – compares two outlets’ narratives on the same specific aspect of a piece of news, concurring or contradicting. Atoms cluster into topics, topics into broader themes: zooming moves you from themes to topics down to the atoms. Every claim links to its verbatim quote and source article.
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The three scales
Micro · the atoms the finest grain: each atom compares two outlets’ narratives on the same point — where they concur or contradict
Meso · finer regions atoms about one event (a place, a moment) gather here — zoom in
Macro · coarser regions events about a broader theme gather into the big regions — zoom out
Colouring of atoms & regions atoms by recency (blue new, red old); regions by topic — switch to consensus in the menu to light up where outlets clash most
Open a region click any region (or its label) for its card: the questions in contest, who takes each side, and which outlets push it
How to use it
Search with the Search button (top): type a topic and the rest of the map dims so the matches light up. A chip shows what's active — tap its × to release it. Keyboard: ⌘K / Ctrl-K opens it, Enter flies to the top match, Esc releases.
Click a region (or its label) to open its card — the heart of it. Tabs walk you through: the questions outlets are fighting over; Composition, a sunburst of which outlets (and countries) push each side, sized by how much they cover it; Outlets coalitions, where outlets agree vs contradict; and the geographical spread.
Click a single atom for what it compares: the two narratives, their quotes and sources, and the frame each casts the story in.
Hover an atom or region for its gist in a line.
Timeline (bottom): press play or drag the handle to move through time, and watch regions grow, shift, and fade as events develop.
Zoom in to break a broad theme into the specific events inside it; pan by dragging. Desktop: scroll to zoom.
Menu (top left): change what the colours show, the topic scale, and which stories count as recent.
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