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  "name": "FrIdéo",
  "version": "1.0",
  "description": "Continuous, ecosystem-wide ideology scores for 30 French national news outlets.",
  "paper": "FrIdéo: French News Outlet Ideology Scoring via Multi-Source Evidence Fusion and Distancing-Aware Lexical Scoring, ICNLSP 2026",
  "author": "Amr Sobhy, Le French News Lab <amr@frenchnewslab.org>",
  "scale": {
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    "mean": 0.0,
    "sd": 1.0,
    "direction": "negative = left, positive = right",
    "anchored": false,
    "note": "Zero-mean and unit-variance BY CONSTRUCTION across this panel. Scores are interpretable only relative to this outlet set and are not comparable to a different panel without re-standardisation."
  },
  "n_outlets": 30,
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      "id": "D0",
      "label": "Ownership ideology"
    },
    {
      "id": "D1",
      "label": "Broadcast guest ideological bias"
    },
    {
      "id": "D2",
      "label": "Survey perceived ideology"
    },
    {
      "id": "D3",
      "label": "Hyperlink/follower network position"
    },
    {
      "id": "D4",
      "label": "Media Bias Fact Check rating"
    },
    {
      "id": "D6a",
      "label": "Stated editorial orientation"
    },
    {
      "id": "D6b",
      "label": "Third-party encyclopedic profiling"
    },
    {
      "id": "D7",
      "label": "Distancing-aware lexical score"
    },
    {
      "id": "D8",
      "label": "Ad Fontes Media bias rating"
    }
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    -0.75,
    -0.25,
    0.25,
    0.75,
    1.5
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      "D2_z": null,
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      "D4_z": null,
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