Data and tools

MCP server

The War On News runs a public Model Context Protocol server at https://thewaronnews.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP, JSON-RPC 2.0 over POST, no SSE). Read tools return the Markdown twin as content and the JSON twin as structuredContent. The one write tool, suggest_correction, needs a client token from the publisher and stores a pending request for review.

Endpoint: https://thewaronnews.com/mcp
Transport: Streamable HTTP (POST)
Protocol versions: 2025-06-18, 2025-03-26, 2024-11-05
Server name: com.thewaronnews/thewaronnews
Manifest: https://thewaronnews.com/.well-known/mcp/server.json

Tools

Tool	What it does	Arguments
search_incidents	Search recorded incidents where governments or officials limited journalists' ability to report, with the same facets as /incidents. Returns date, country, tactic, head of government, outcome, summary and URL, newest first (best match first with a query).	query, country, continent, tactic, leader, actor, outcome, level, from, to, has_case, sort, limit
get_incident	One incident: what happened, quoted justification, effect on reporting, status, timeline, actors, outlets, cases, claims and archived sources.	slug
get_timeline	Dated timeline entries, oldest first.	from, to, actor, type, limit
get_actor	An official or body: role, office, jurisdiction, and every incident with the actor's role.	slug
get_case	A court case: caption, court, docket, dates, quoted holding, status, parties, documents, incidents.	slug
get_country	One country's record: incidents by year, tactics used, heads of government at the time, and the latest RSF World Press Freedom Index rank where recorded.	iso2
get_tactic	One tactic: plain definition and every recorded incident using it, by country and year.	slug
ladder	Where one tactic has led: its recorded incidents grouped by escalation stage (restrict, pressure, punish, silence, eliminate), then by date, with country and RSF 2026 rank, head of government, what was done, outcome, ladder note and number of sources. United States rows are marked as the focal case and come first within their stage. Entry counts reflect the depth of the record, not the severity of a country's conduct.	tactic, stage, continent, from, to
get_united_states_chapter	The focal chapter as JSON: the United States' RSF 2026 rank; incidents dated 2025 and 2026 in date order with events; the earlier record from 1917 by decade; for each tactic in use now, the United States rows, the furthest stage the tactic has reached elsewhere and its ladder; United States court cases; sources.
recent_coverage	Links to recent reporting (last 60 days) on government actions against journalists worldwide, newest first, with publisher and date. Headlines belong to their publishers.	limit
get_sources_for	Every source an incident cites, with link state and Wayback snapshot URL.	incident_slug
suggest_correction	Suggest a correction. Requires a client token from the publisher. Stored as pending; an editor reviews every suggestion.	target_type, target_id, body, source_url, author_claim, token

Example

curl -s https://thewaronnews.com/mcp -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search_incidents","arguments":{"query":"White House"}}}'