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Founded in 2016 by Politico alumni around a deliberately compressed format, bullet points under headings like Why it matters. Cox Enterprises acquired a 70 per cent stake in 2022, with founders and staff retaining the rest.
Busy readers get the substance of a story in under a minute, and its scoop rate on Washington personnel news is high. Critics argue the format strips out the context that makes a fact meaningful, and that Why it matters is an editorial judgment presented in the typography of a fact.