👤 Josh Boswell

8 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
8
2026-09-21 – 2026-10-07
Claims per article
35
277 extracted in total
Hedged claims
17%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
5,708
characters
Writes for CBS News.
Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty (“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is not a fault: it is often careful sourcing. How these are measured.

What they cover

Politics
75%
Crime & Law
12%
Technology
12%
Most-tagged topics
ChineseFBICBS NewsU.S.CaliforniaChinaSeattleTaiwanese

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
2 scored articles; a leaning average needs at least 8 before it says more about the writer than about which stories they happened to be assigned. Their outlet averages -0.14 (centre).

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-10-07 · CBS News · Politics
FBI concerned accused Chinese foreign agent is serious flight risk, sources say
15 outlets covered this event · leans right
2026-10-06 · CBS News · Politics
Alleged Chinese agent makes federal court appearance
15 outlets covered this event
2026-10-04 · CBS News · Politics
FBI arrests woman accused of surveilling Taiwanese president's son for China
15 outlets covered this event
2026-10-06 · CBS News · Crime & Law
California couple at center of surrogacy scandal arrested
8 outlets covered this event
2026-09-21 · CBS News · Politics
Family tied to suspected Chinese spy gave $4.4M to Newsom, Calif. politicians
2 outlets covered this event
2026-10-07 · CBS News · Politics
The life and travels of an alleged Chinese agent
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans strongly right

What they said would happen

2026-09-21 · CBS News
Family tied to suspected Chinese spy gave $4.4M to Newsom, Calif. politicians
🔮 Neither Henry Yin nor his brother have been accused by U.S. law enforcement of working as a foreign agent or acting against American interests. Foreign Policy Research Institute fellow and University of Miami professor June Teufel Dreyer told CBS News that, although political donations and advisory roles are patterns of influence used by the United Front, those actions and traveling to China for diplomacy and business trips could be entirely innocent. "There's really nothing wrong with successful Chinese entrepreneurs wanting to help out the economies of the country they originally came from," Dreyer said, but added: "We should get rid of the idea that there's such a thing as a truly private business in China. assertive
2026-09-29 · CBS News
He spied for the U.S. in the war on terror. Now ICE wants to deport him.
🔮 Skoro believed he would receive a reduced sentence for his work, but was instead deported to Kosovo in 2007 and claims he was told by the CIA to infiltrate al Qaeda from the Balkans — only returning to the U.S. in 2014, he said in a previous legal declaration for his immigration case. assertive
2026-10-02 · CBS News
Some topics are off limits in Chinese AI, researchers find
🔮 The firm says its scientists have found a way to remove the model's bias using sophisticated technology that amounts to "AI brain surgery," and are now set to publish what they call a "Westernized" version of Qwen. assertive
2026-10-04 · CBS News
FBI arrests woman accused of surveilling Taiwanese president's son for China
🔮 "If the PRC [People's Republic of China] wish to obtain leverage over the President of Taiwan during any potential conflict, the location and pictures of the close relatives of a high-ranking Taiwanese government official, including pictures of their homes and cars, could be useful to the PRC," wrote FBI Special Agent Kevin Holt in the Oct. 3, 2026, criminal complaint. mixed
2026-10-06 · CBS News
California couple at center of surrogacy scandal arrested
🔮 A neighbor said helicopters and police could be seen at their mansion and the entire block is taped off. assertive
2026-10-07 · CBS News
The life and travels of an alleged Chinese agent
🔮 Cai has been photographed at several events with former Arcadia, California, Mayor Eileen Wang, who pleaded guilty to acting as a Chinese government agent in May. mixed
2026-10-07 · CBS News
FBI concerned accused Chinese foreign agent is serious flight risk, sources say
🔮 The FBI fears the arrested at LAX on Sunday may try to flee the country if released after her court hearing on Wednesday, law enforcement sources told CBS News. assertive
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