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.
-0.26
average ± 0.21·
-0.35 median·
10 scored articles
Indistinguishable from their outlet, which averages
-0.13. On this many articles the
difference between the two is inside the margin.
Leaning rates the writing, not the subject.
How it is scored.
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Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
🔮 Even if you can put aside the ick-factor of HHS trying to sneak political content to viewers like some parents might hide broccoli in muffins, this just makes it a worse show. assertive
🔮 If the web boosted young people's psychological health in its infancy, today's turbocharged tech access could theoretically make things even better. assertive
🔮 In August, the Associated Press reported that the FBI would no longer bar the hiring of agents who had paid for sex—with a human, I guess I should clarify—in the past. assertive
🔮 Ending this criminalization could make law enforcement officers less likely to see sex workers as "the perfect mark," and make sex workers more likely to come forward when they are victimized, by cops or anyone else. assertive
🔮 The case concerns Tennessee's Underage Abortion Trafficking Act, which criminalizes the "recruit[ment]" of a minor for any procedure that "would constitute a criminal abortion" under Tennessee law. assertive
🔮 AOC is just starting her first term in Congress, Twitter is a hotbed of histrionics, and this video may actually be a secret time capsule, harkening back to the carefree early days of social media and the Millennial Internet. assertive
🔮 There were wedding, party, and conference hashtags, so everyone at an event, or following along online, could catch all the pictures and updates. assertive
🔮 We've reached the point in techno-dystopia where autonomous humanoid robots are out assaulting girls in the street—or so some coverage of a recent incident in Cologne, Germany, might have you believe. mixed
🔮 Talking to reporters that same day, Trump just kept repeating that if an ad had been made with his mom calling him a liar, the press would love it. assertive
🔮 The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will let pharmacies produce and sell treatments involving six peptides that aren't specifically approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). mixed
🔮 Idaho Proposition 1 would have created "a right to reproductive freedom and privacy including a right to abortion up to the point of the fetus's ability to survive outside the womb." assertive
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