“No spokespersons. No paraphrase. Only what they actually said.”
A free, continuously updated archive of verbatim quotes from world leaders and technology executives — each one linked back to the article that carried it.
Read the paperMost quote aggregators repeat whatever a headline claims someone said. This one refuses to publish until it has verified both that the words are real and that the right person said them.
The quote must be a literal substring of the article body. Not a close match, not a summary of the sentiment — the exact characters, present in the text that was published.
The span of text that attributes the quote has to name the person being tracked. If the article is vague about who spoke, or attributes it to a spokesperson, nothing is published.
Quotes that fail either check are discarded rather than published with a caveat. Duplicates across outlets are merged, so a story carried by eight papers appears once, with all eight sources listed.
Ingestion
Every fifteen minutes it pulls the latest global news index and filters it down to a tracked roster of people. Candidate quotes are stored for checking. No AI at this stage — it is a static file feed, so there is nothing to rate-limit and nothing to pay for.
Attribution
Each candidate has its source article fetched and read, and a language model decides who actually said it. This is where the two checks above are enforced. Anything that does not pass is dropped.
The paper
What survives is set as a newspaper: a rotating featured quote, a running feed, and filters by topic, country and speaker. Every entry carries a link straight to the outlet that published it.
English only
The source index carries no quotations in its translated stream, so native-language coverage would need its own extraction. Not built yet, and the archive is smaller for it.
People, not organisations
Every quote is a named individual’s own words. No company statements, no press offices, no “sources close to”. That excludes a great deal of news on purpose.
Summaries are labelled
Where a written summary sits alongside a quote it is marked as machine-written and not a direct quote. The quote itself is always the verbatim text.
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