News Without the Noise.

Most news apps show you what happened. Updat3 shows you what is being reported, by whom, and why it matters — with the sources and context visible, so you can form your own view.

Who we are

We're a small team who like being well informed and found it took too much work. Following one story properly meant reading several outlets, comparing what each one reported, and then digging for the background none of them had room to explain.

Updat3 does that legwork in one place. It gathers reporting on the same event from outlets across the political and geographic spectrum, pulls out what they agree happened, and adds the context you need to understand it. It is built to help you make up your own mind, not to tell you what to think.

Why we built it

Every outlet makes choices: which story leads, which facts go first, which background gets a sentence and which gets left out. Those choices are a normal part of journalism, but when you only see one outlet's version you can't see which choices were made.

Seeing several outlets side by side makes those choices visible. You can see who is covering a story, how widely, and where their accounts differ, then follow the links and read the original reporting yourself.

What's in a story

Most stories on Updat3 include:

The bottom line: two sentences on what happened and the immediate consequence.

Key facts: concrete facts from the reporting, each checked against the source text it came from and kept separate from commentary.

The brief: a short narrative in our own words. Every story is covered by at least two outlets, and the story page says how many of their texts the brief was written from; often that is one, with the others confirming it.

Why it matters and what to watch next: the practical consequences, and the developments worth following.

Historical background, on every story: the documented history that explains how we got here, scaled to the story. A conflict, a court fight or a policy change gets the causal chain back to its origin; a product launch or a sports result gets its short, specific background (the earlier version, the previous ruling, the last meeting). Every sentence of it carries something a reader can check: a dated event, a named law or ruling, a named person in a named role, or a figure with its year.

Every story shows which outlets are covering it and links to each original article.

One standard

Updat3 is designed to apply the same scrutiny to every party, every government and every armed group: the same directness, the same context, the same willingness to follow documented facts wherever they lead, regardless of who they implicate.

This isn't both-sides journalism that invents false equivalence. It's equal standards of evidence and equal willingness to report what the evidence shows.

Where we can go wrong

Updat3 uses AI to summarise and synthesise reporting, and AI makes mistakes. We check stories automatically for factual and structural problems, and a person reviews stories that are flagged. We still get things wrong sometimes.

If you spot an error, use "Report an issue" on the story page. Reports are read by a person, and they never change a story automatically.

What we cover

Our sources

Updat3 draws on publisher news feeds, the GDELT Project's open global news dataset and a licensed news-metadata API, reaching hundreds of outlets across wire services, national broadcasters, regional press and specialist publications, spanning the political spectrum. We don't exclude outlets because of their editorial lean. A partisan source is still a signal worth knowing about.

Outlets whose coverage we track include BBC, Al Jazeera, Reuters, AP, Fox News, the Guardian, Financial Times, Channel News Asia, South China Morning Post, Haaretz, Jerusalem Post, Middle East Eye, France 24, DW, ABC Australia, The Hindu, and many more. Some publishers' terms allow us only to count and link their coverage, not to use their text; for those we link to the original report. Listing an outlet does not mean it endorses or is affiliated with Updat3.