Sources & methodology
How Tokos News works
Tokos News 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 all at once.
Reading a story
Pick a topic from the top of the page, or stay on “Top stories” for all stories in a single list. Stories covered by the most outlets are listed 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 pagination dots underneath tell you where the cycle is and the arrows on either side allow you to move it a step in either direction, while on a touchscreen you can swipe it. It pauses whenever you are reading a story’s sources, and it does not run 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 from the publisher
If you tap a source, you leave Tokos News to visit the outlet that wrote the story.
You may get hit with a cookie dialog, which belongs to the outlet, not to Tokos. 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 are usually open to the public without a subscription. However, no publisher is bound by this; thus, any of them could put up a wall at any given time. Nonetheless, Tokos News is designed to give the public articles with easy access.
The source count
The number on every story is how many outlets covered it. The bars beside it are those outlets, one each, grouped in fives and shaded by kind, so you can see the mix as well as the count.
One mark per source: public broadcaster newsroom specialist desk wire or official source
Your own reading experience
You can tailor your reading by logging in to follow only the topics you would like by clicking on the follow button with a star. You can also click on the star next to an outlet’s name in the list of a story’s sources to follow all articles from that particular outlet. For You then ranks your stories by what you follow. If you click “Save” at the end of a story’s sources, that cluster of stories will remain reachable even after the site updates with new news stories throughout the day.
If you turn on notifications, Tokos News can alert you in your browser or on your home-screen app when new coverage appears in a topic or from an outlet you follow. Notifications are off until you enable them, and you can turn them off again at any time.
By default, nothing is retained when logged out. When signed in, your preferences are saved so you can access your tailored feed across devices. Click “Privacy” below for details.
Summaries
Each story’s headline and summary are drafted with the assistance of a language model and pulled directly from the source headlines themselves. They will not contain a detail that is not stated in the article source titles.
Images
Tokos News never copies, resizes or stores a publisher’s photo on its own servers.
In the English edition, a story may show the outlet’s own image, loaded directly from the outlet’s website and credited with the outlet’s name. Stories illustrated by EU-based publishers (France 24, DW, Euronews, Politico Europe, RTÉ) show a Tokos branded card instead, as does every story in the French edition. Link previews and social posts always use a Tokos branded card.
Sources and opting out
Every outlet Tokos News reads, and how each one is treated, is listed on the Sources page. A publisher can ask to be removed, or to change how its content is treated, by emailing info@tokos.news.
Reader choice
Tokos News does not score outlets for bias or tell readers what to believe about an article. Tokos shows what is being covered, where coverage overlaps, and lists original sources that are publicly accessible so readers can compare the most-cited coverage.”