Baltic Echo

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An open, non-commercial experiment that follows claims about Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia through the news: where a claim first appears, which newsrooms repeat it, in which languages, and what named fact-checkers have said about it. Every figure on this page opens to its sources.

133,690 Headlines collected
49 Feeds read
73 Sources registered and refused
6 Languages in the corpus
37 Independent editorial groups
1,195 Fact-checks recorded
7 Named fact-checkers
704 Checks listed without their text
0 Recurring claims shown
389 Recurring claims withheld
65 Sources behind this page
584 Dated observations published

By country of publication

Country	Registered	Read	Refused	Headlines
Latvia	42	21	21	44,906
Estonia	30	11	19	16,163
Lithuania	27	11	16	32,791
Russia	18	5	13	39,381
Baltic-wide	3	0	3
European Union	2	1	1	10

A source's country is where the outlet publishes, not what its articles are about.

Sources Echo has registered and does not read

A refused source is not a gap in the data. It is a decision with a reason, and both are published here.

BNN (Baltic News Network) — The publisher's robots.txt forbids this feed.
The Baltic Times — The publisher's robots.txt could not be read, so permission is unknown.
The Barents Observer — The outlet publishes no public feed.
Delfi (Estonia) — The publisher has withdrawn its feed.
Delfi (Estonia, Russian edition) — The publisher has withdrawn its feed.
Eesti Paevaleht — The publisher has withdrawn its feed.
Geenius — The outlet publishes no public feed.
Harju Elu — The publisher links a terms page, but it serves no terms text, so permission is unknown and the source is not read.
Hiiu Leht — The publisher reserved text-and-data-mining rights in its terms.
Koit — The outlet publishes no public feed.
Laane Elu — The publisher's robots.txt could not be read, so permission is unknown.
Ohtuleht — The publisher's terms forbid automated collection.
Pohjarannik — The outlet publishes no public feed.
Postimees — The publisher's terms forbid automated collection.
Postimees (English) — The publisher's terms forbid automated collection.
Postimees (Russian edition) — The publisher's terms forbid automated collection.
Saarte Haal — The publisher's terms forbid automated collection.
Sirp — The publisher reserved text-and-data-mining rights in its terms.
Telegram — The publisher links a terms page, but it serves no terms text, so permission is unknown and the source is not read.
meiemaa.ee — The site names no publisher, editor or legal entity, so it cannot be counted as an editorial group.
nadaline.ee — The site names no publisher, editor or legal entity, so it cannot be counted as an editorial group.
stolitsa.ee — The site names no publisher, editor or legal entity, so it cannot be counted as an editorial group.
Emerging Europe — The publisher's robots.txt could not be read, so permission is unknown.
15min — The publisher reserved text-and-data-mining rights in robots.txt.
Aina.lt — robots.txt allows the feed, but the publisher's server refuses this reader; nothing is worked around.
Alfa.lt — robots.txt allows the feed, but the publisher's server refuses this reader; nothing is worked around.
Alytaus naujienos — The outlet publishes no public feed.
BNS (Baltic News Service) — The outlet publishes no public feed.
Bernardinai.lt — The publisher's robots.txt forbids this feed.
Delfi (Lithuania) — The publisher reserved text-and-data-mining rights in its terms.
Delfi (Lithuania, Russian edition) — This section or language edition publishes no feed of its own.
ELTA — The outlet publishes no public feed.
Lietuvos rytas / lrytas.lt — The publisher's terms forbid automated collection.
Lietuvos zinios — The publisher's robots.txt could not be read, so permission is unknown.
Made in Vilnius — robots.txt allows the feed, but the publisher's server refuses this reader; nothing is worked around.
Obzor — The outlet publishes no public feed.
TV3.lt — The outlet publishes no public feed.
Vakaru ekspresas — The publisher's terms forbid reproduction without written permission.
zw.lt (Radio Znad Wilii) — robots.txt allows the feed, but the publisher's server refuses this reader; nothing is worked around.
Delfi (Latvia) — The publisher's terms forbid use in research or analysis.
Delfi (Latvia, Russian edition) — The publisher's terms forbid use in research or analysis.
Diena — The publisher's terms forbid reproduction without written permission.
Dienas Bizness / DB.lv — The publisher's terms forbid reproduction without written permission.
Druva — The outlet publishes no public feed.
Ir — The publisher's terms forbid automated access.
Kurzemes Vards — The outlet publishes no public feed.
LETA — The outlet publishes no public feed.
LV portals (VSIA Latvijas Vestnesis) — The publisher's terms forbid reproduction without written permission.
Liepajniekiem.lv — The outlet publishes no public feed.
Meduza — The outlet is registered in one country and the owner has not yet fixed which country it belongs to; it stays unread until then.
Mixnews.lv — The site names no publisher, editor or legal entity, so it cannot be counted as an editorial group.
Neatkariga Rita Avize / nra.lv — The publisher's terms forbid reproduction without written permission.
Ogres Vestis Visiem — The publisher's robots.txt could not be read, so permission is unknown.
Rezeknes Vestis — The publisher's robots.txt could not be read, so permission is unknown.
Sargs.lv — The outlet publishes no public feed.
Satori — The outlet publishes no public feed.
TV3 Latvia / tv3.lv — The publisher's terms forbid reproduction without written permission.
Talsu Vestis — The publisher's robots.txt could not be read, so permission is unknown.
Ventas Balss — The outlet publishes no public feed.
Vesti.lv — The outlet publishes no public feed.
Baltnews Estonia — The outlet is on the EU broadcast-suspension list.
Baltnews Latvia — The outlet is on the EU broadcast-suspension list.
Baltnews Lithuania — The outlet is on the EU broadcast-suspension list.
Izvestia — The publisher's robots.txt could not be read, so permission is unknown.
Kommersant — The publisher's robots.txt forbids this feed.
Lenta.ru — The publisher's robots.txt forbids this feed.
RIA Novosti — The outlet is on the EU broadcast-suspension list.
RT (English) — The outlet is on the EU broadcast-suspension list.
RT (Russian) — The outlet is on the EU broadcast-suspension list.
Rossiyskaya Gazeta — The outlet is on the EU broadcast-suspension list.
Sputnik (international) — The outlet is on the EU broadcast-suspension list.
Sputnik Lithuania — The outlet is on the EU broadcast-suspension list.
TASS (Russian) — The publisher's robots.txt could not be read, so permission is unknown.

No recurring claim is shown here

Echo groups repeated claims into clusters and publishes a cluster only when at least three independent editorial groups carried it and a person has reviewed the classifier's frozen sample. Neither holds yet, so every cluster is counted, refused, and not shown.

Echo measures how a claim travels. It never decides whether the claim is true: a verdict here is always a fact-checker's own, quoted with its date and link.

This is not a list of lies and not a list of liars. Only newsrooms and channels with a public editorial identity are named; no person is.

Unchecked means unchecked. A claim no fact-checker addressed is not thereby true.

No data is not zero. Where Echo has nothing, it says why.

Everything on this page comes from one open data file: echo_data.json

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