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AP Fact Check's nearest audiences span a wide mix of subcategories — comedians, politicians, journalists, podcasts, and websites — with no single neighbor pulling far ahead of the rest.
The shape is flat: the top 10 scores run from Dan Price (0.87) down to Weekend Edition (0.85), a spread of just 0.015. That compression means no structural anchor dominates. The subcategory breakdown across the top 10 is telling: four are from Podcasts and Radio (Morning Edition at 0.86, Weekend Edition at 0.85) and Websites (PolitiFact at 0.86, The Onion at 0.85, Mental Floss at 0.85), two are Comedians (Jordan Klepper at 0.86, Jon Stewart at 0.85), one is a Politician (Jason Kander at 0.86), one is a Professional (Dan Price at 0.87), and one is an Actor (Dan Levy at 0.85). AP Fact Check's own subcategory — News Publishers — has no match in the top 10; the lone fellow News Publisher in the broader neighbor set does not appear until outside this window. The audience shape is defined less by journalism peers than by a cross-kind cluster of public-radio programming, political comedians, and fact-adjacent websites.
This pattern suggests an audience that organizes around civic and media literacy broadly, rather than around news consumption specifically.
