Sources & methodology
How Synomie News works
Synomie is an independent news aggregator that reads public RSS feeds from major news organizations and gathers the latest most-cited stories, letting users see an event through multiple sources at once.
Reading a story
Pick a topic from the bar at the top of the page, or stay on Top stories for every one of them in a single list. Either way the order is the same: the story the most outlets are covering comes first. The lead story sits full-width at the top, the rest follow underneath it, and you read by scrolling.
On Top stories the lead slot also cycles, bringing each topic's biggest story through it in turn. The dots underneath say where the cycle is, the arrows either side move it a step, and on a touchscreen you can swipe it. It pauses whenever you are doing something else - reading a story's sources, scrolled past it, or on another tab - and it does not run at all for anyone whose system asks for reduced motion.
Open any story to see its sources: every outlet covering it, and the headline each one ran. Tap a source to read it in full at the publisher. Close the sources again to carry on down the list.
Reading at the publisher
Tap a source and you leave Synomie for the outlet that wrote the story. You may get hit with a cookie dialog, which belongs to the outlet, not to Synomie.
Many outlets require accepting cookies to read their articles. This isn’t a paywall. While European outlets ask most often, the habit has spread outside the European Union.
Every outlet here was chosen because its articles can be read without a subscription. However, no publisher is bound by this — any of them can put up a wall tomorrow. Nonetheless, Synomie is designed to include articles open to the public.
Your own page
The star beside the list heading follows a topic, and the star next to an outlet's name in a story's sources follows that outlet. For You then ranks stories by what you follow. Save a story from its sources and it stays under Saved, still reachable after later builds have moved on.
All of that is kept by your browser, not by an account. Nothing about what you follow or save is sent anywhere, and clearing your browser data clears it.
Summaries
Each story's headline and its one-sentence context line are written by a language model from the source headlines alone. It will not contain a fact that no source headline states.
Images
Story images are produced from live articles within the news feed.
Reader choice
Synomie does not score outlets for bias or tell readers what to believe. It shows what is being covered, where coverage overlaps, and lists original sources that are publicly accessible.