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World mood · tone of global news, last 24h · GDELT

Only verified good news.
Overlooked stories, live around the clock.

Upbeat gathers positive stories from around the world — science, humanity, achievements, law, business, and discoveries — each one checked against a reputable source and linked so you can read the original.

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Your lift — five good things, fresh around the clock.

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Your week in lift

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Founding Risers

The first readers. Numbered forever.

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The creed

The Upbeat Manifesto

  1. The world is getting better — we show up around the clock to prove it.
  2. Good news is real news. We verify it like it matters, because it does.
  3. No outrage. No doom. No noise.
  4. Hope is a practice, not a feeling.
  5. Light over the dark — every single day.
  6. Bring someone into the light.

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Editorial standards

Verified sources only

Every story links to a reputable publication, institution, or official announcement. No anonymous claims, no aggregators of aggregators.

Original summaries

We write our own short summaries. We never reproduce full articles — if you want the whole story, follow the source link.

No fake good news

Feel-good claims get the same scrutiny as bad news. If we can't verify it, it doesn't get published.

Corrections in the open

When we get something wrong, we fix it and log the correction below, publicly, with the date.

Corrections log

Every fix we've made, in public.

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