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Frank Bültge
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The Consensus

How much of the „independent" news consensus is really one source, copied.

22 June 2026

Today's most independently reported sentence

„Radar deal done : Canada spends big on Aussie technology"

— word-for-word across 18 separate news outlets.

First surfaced 08:45 UTC via batemansbaypost.com.au; within 0.8h, 17 more ran the identical sentence.

Classified: chain syndication — one publishing group, one push (TLD share 100%).

The „independent" outlets

22.2%

of today's scanned news stream was echo — copied verbatim by at least three outlets, not original reporting.

Also in chorus today

„Nationals ape Hanson liar slogan as tax debate flares"

17 outlets, word-for-word