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Joshua Wong, Hong Kong pro-democracy poster boy facing longer prison stint
📍 Hong Kong, HK·🕐 9h ago·31 outlets
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✓ Verified · 31 outlets
Two or more outlets reported this story and its reliability score reached 65%, so WorldPulse marks it verified. That means more than one outlet says so, not that it is proven true.
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Hindustan Times· National ↗BBC· International ↗ABC (Australia)· National ↗Bloomberg· Specialist ↗The Guardian· National ↗The Japan Times· National ↗The New York Times· National ↗Nile Post· National ↗The Copenhagen Post· National ↗UPI· News agency ↗DW· International ↗news8000.com ↗The Epoch Times· National ↗home.nzcity.co.nz ↗Japan Today· National ↗The Korea Herald· National ↗The Wall Street Journal· National ↗Hong Kong Free Press· National ↗Nikkei Asia· Specialist ↗
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cross checkconfirmed90%
[Claude] Both reports cover the same event, Joshua Wong's prison sentence for his pro-democracy activity, and nothing they state about it conflicts; Report 2 supplies the 10-year figure that Report 1 only impl
4h agocorroborationconfirmed80%
Also reported by bbc.co.uk (found in GDELT's list of news articles)
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Reliability
Reliability ScoreVery high
98%Independent outlets18
Statusverified
AI checknone yet
Community flags0
Score bands
Very high80–100%
A highly rated outlet, or several independent outletsHigh60–79%
One well-rated outlet so farModerate40–59%
A lower-rated or state-run outlet, or one report of something seriousLow20–39%
A low-rated outlet on a serious or sensitive storyVery low0–19%
Treat it as unconfirmedWhat moves the score
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Outlet ratingThe outlet’s rating in WorldPulse’s list of sources starts the score
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Independent outletsEach further outlet that reports the story closes 40% of the gap to 98%
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Report detailsA few points either way: a summary and a place add a little; state-run outlets on conflict, politics or security, and single reports marked high or critical, lose some
Not in the score: AI checks and reader flags. Verified is separate: two or more independent outlets and a score of at least 65%.
Very high · How we score this
Risk Score
medium risk