👤 Melissa Goldin

8 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
8
2026-09-22 – 2026-10-21
Claims per article
30
237 extracted in total
Hedged claims
17%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
4,058
characters · 4 tagged analysis
Writes for The Independent, Toronto Star.
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%
Economy/Business
25%
Most-tagged topics
DemocraticHouseIranRepublicanU.S.Affordable Care ActAmericanAmericans

Leaning

-0.30 average ± 0.20 · -0.35 median · 8 scored articles
Indistinguishable from their outlet, which averages -0.23. On this many articles the difference between the two is inside the margin. Leaning rates the writing, not the subject. How it is scored.

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-09-22 · Toronto Star · Politics
FACT FOCUS: Trump made multiple false and misleading claim in front of the UN General Assembly
31 outlets covered this event · leans left
2026-10-03 · Toronto Star · Politics
Trump urges calls to Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton in push for permanent daylight saving time
14 outlets covered this event · leans right
2026-10-03 · Toronto Star · Politics
Trump announces $90 payments for seniors on Medicare ahead of midterm elections for premium costs
11 outlets covered this event · leans left
2026-10-12 · Toronto Star · Politics
FACT FOCUS: Posts falsely claim Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico was at a mental facility
5 outlets covered this event · leans left
2026-10-21 · Toronto Star · Economy/Business
FACT FOCUS: When it comes to Trump's economy, these are the numbers that matter before Nov. 3
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans strongly left
2026-09-29 · Toronto Star · Economy/Business
FACT FOCUS: The poverty rate is at an all-time low, but there are other factors to consider
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans left

What they said would happen

2026-09-22 · Toronto Star
FACT FOCUS: Trump made multiple false and misleading claim in front of the UN General Assembly
🔮 _ CLAIM: “We have more munitions than we could ever possibly even think of using, and we’re building them at levels that we have never done before.” mixed
2026-09-24 · The Independent
Did Biden really purge hundreds of journalists? The viral claim taking over X exposed
🔮 In May 2023, the White House Press Office under the Biden administration emailed credentialed journalists about plans to "revise the policy on press hard passes to be consistent with that of prior administrations." mixed
2026-09-25 · Toronto Star
AI ads are popular in the 2026 midterms, but state laws haven’t stopped a lack of disclosure
🔮 But as the 43-second video continues, Mamdani, the mayor of New York City, and Hochul, the governor of New York State, have a conversation that paints them in a negative light. assertive
2026-10-03 · Toronto Star
Trump urges calls to Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton in push for permanent daylight saving time
🔮 Proponents, including the White House, argue that the change would provide more daylight during the times that Americans are most active. assertive
2026-10-03 · Toronto Star
Trump announces $90 payments for seniors on Medicare ahead of midterm elections for premium costs
🔮 The announcement, made late Friday night by Trump on social media, comes after the president last month said about 1 million people would get rebate checks of $500 for Affordable Care Act premiums. assertive
2026-10-12 · Toronto Star
FACT FOCUS: Posts falsely claim Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico was at a mental facility
🔮 If Talarico wins the November general election, Paxton would be the first Republican in nearly four decades to lose a Senate race in Texas. ___ assertive
2026-10-21 · Toronto Star
FACT FOCUS: When it comes to Trump's economy, these are the numbers that matter before Nov. 3
🔮 In his inaugural address last year, the Republican pledged: “I will direct all members of my Cabinet to marshal the vast powers at their disposal to defeat what was record inflation and rapidly bring down costs and prices.” assertive
Forward-looking sentences extracted from their articles, oldest first. Nothing here checks whether any of it turned out to be right.
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