DistantNews aggregates local newspaper coverage from more than 100 countries and around 150 to 170 outlets, and this user agent fetches articles from the outlets it features. The site states that sources are hand picked and that headlines, summaries and its local perspective write ups are produced automatically from the original article text, with every story naming the publisher and linking back to the original. The about page gives an email address for publishers who have questions or want to be excluded, but it documents no crawling policy, no IP ranges and no reverse DNS hostnames, and the operator is an individual rather than a registered company.

At a glance

Operator: DistantNews
Type: Aggregator
RSL category: ai-input

How Centinel checks it

User agent: The request calls itself this crawler. Anyone can send the same string.

DistantNews publishes nothing Centinel can check a source against, so a match reports the name and leaves the source unconfirmed. The match tokens, verification domains, and address feeds are not published here.

Allowing or blocking it

The crawler object in the /validate response sets access_allowed to true only for a verified source that your tenant allowlists. A policy rule can allow or block this crawler by its category, Aggregator.

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