Every newsroom tells the world from somewhere.
TOLD shows the same story side by side, told by hundreds of news sources from around the world, across countries, languages and editorial traditions.
The same event. Four different headlines.
Word choice and emphasis differ from newsroom to newsroom. TOLD puts those differences side by side.
A central bank raises its key interest rate
Central bank raises key rate to 4.5 percent
Rate rise adds new pressure on renters and borrowers
Savers see returns at last as bank confronts inflation
Officials say rate decision shows the economy is on course
Illustrative example. On TOLD, every headline links to its original source.
No story is entirely objective. Two newsrooms can cover the same event and arrive at two different pictures of it, both honestly made. That’s what the world looks like. The conclusion isn’t to stop trusting the press. It’s to read more than one source.
Framing isn’t the problem. Seeing only one is.
Every newsroom frames a story from an angle. The trouble begins where one frame is all you ever see.
The Brief gathers the seven stories the world’s press told most widely today and puts every telling underneath. The Perspective takes the most covered story of the moment and sets the angles next to each other.
Read one source and you get one frame. Read many, and the frame itself becomes visible.
Every headline here has a newsroom behind it.
Every source on TOLD is a working newsroom with editorial responsibility. It is named. Its country, its owner and the year it started are on the page. If it gets something wrong, there is someone who can correct it, and someone who answers for it.
The difference between a newsroom and one person posting isn’t who’s right. It’s structural. In most of the countries we read, a newsroom has a responsible publisher, a press ethics body you can complain to, and the time and people to check a claim before it goes out. Someone posting alone has none of that. It doesn’t make them unreliable. It means nobody catches the error for you.
more likely a false story spreads online than the truth.
of Europeans see online disinformation as a threat to democracy.
in Europe worry about telling real news from fake online.
MIT / Science, 2018 · Eurobarometer, EU, 2018 · Reuters Institute, Europe, 2025
Country
Where the newsroom is based, and the language it publishes in.
Ownership
Who owns the outlet, and how the work is funded.
Founded
How long the newsroom has been publishing.
Position
Where its editorial line sits, from independent to state aligned.
TOLD is not built against the press. It is built to send readers to it. Every headline links straight to the newsroom that published it.
Every story shows how many told it. And how many did not.
TOLD counts the newsrooms that reported a story against every newsroom it reads. Both numbers are on the page. A Sensation is the moment many independent newsrooms report the same thing at once.
You can also ask it the other way round. Filter a story by region and see whether anyone there reported it. If nobody did, the page says so.
We read 81 newsrooms in Europe and 6 in Russia. Silence in one means something different from silence in the other, so the count of what we read is always next to it.
A story doesn’t end when it leaves your feed.
Some stories run for months. Ongoing follows them as timelines, one day at a time, so a single thread holds the first report and the latest one.
Newsstream runs underneath all of it. Every headline we read, in the order it arrived, around the clock.
We don’t pick the news. We count it.
TOLD does not write headlines.
It ranks stories by how many newsrooms told them, not by angle.
It shows each source’s reporting as that source published it.
Every count is shown next to the number of newsrooms we read.
Every 24 hours, TOLD reads hundreds of newsrooms and thousands of headlines from around the world. Each story links straight to the newsrooms that told it, so the same events can be explored across borders and languages. Contextual information and summaries show how stories are framed and where attention is placed. TOLD does not promote opinions or tell you what to think. It is built to support critical reading, and to leave the conclusions to you.
Three things TOLD will never do.
No verdict.
TOLD never tells you which newsroom got it right. That judgement stays with you.
No feed that narrows.
TOLD does not learn your taste and narrow what you see. It widens the view instead.
No outrage as fuel.
The headlines are each newsroom's own words. We never rewrite them into something sharper.
You keep the judgement. We hand you the material.
Six ways to read the news.
Sensations
The moment many independent outlets report the same story at once.
Newsstream
Every headline as it arrives, around the clock.
Ongoing
Long-running stories tracked as timelines, day by day.
The Perspective
The most-covered story, told from different angles.
Newsagent
The full source catalogue: origin, language, ownership, funding.
The Brief
Seven stories a day, ranked by how widely the world’s press covers them.
Democracy needs more than access to information. It needs to see who is telling the story, and from where.
We’re not out to polarize. We’re out to make it normal that there’s more than one way to see the same event.
Rooted in the Swedish archipelago.
TOLD is built by Gaerhenäs, a small studio on the Swedish coast that builds digital tools with a public purpose. TOLD is an ongoing experiment in how news can be read. It is made to support the newsrooms it reads, and to help readers find established journalism they did not know before.