Manipulation techniques in today's news
15 articles, drawn evenly from
outlets rated left, center, and right. Each one lists the manipulation techniques
our model found — not a judgment of whether it's true.
Loaded Language
The Guardian (US) · left
42.9% of sentences flagged
Loaded Language
Flag-Waving
Exaggeration/Hyperbole
Conspiracy Appeal
+6 more
Washington Examiner · right
34.1% of sentences flagged
Loaded Language
Appeal to Fear
Scapegoating
Victim Blaming
+2 more
The Guardian (US) · left
26.8% of sentences flagged
Appeal to Fear
Loaded Language
Name Calling
Conspiracy Appeal
+3 more
Washington Examiner · right
24.0% of sentences flagged
Card Stacking
Exaggeration/Hyperbole
Loaded Language
Repetition
+2 more
NPR · left
17.5% of sentences flagged
Loaded Language
Appeal to Fear
Exaggeration/Hyperbole
UPI · center
15.4% of sentences flagged
Loaded Language
Fox News · right
14.3% of sentences flagged
Loaded Language
Name Calling
Vox · left
12.5% of sentences flagged
Loaded Language
Appeal to Prejudice
Name Calling
The Hill · center
11.1% of sentences flagged
Appeal to Fear
Loaded Language
BBC News · center
11.1% of sentences flagged
Name Calling
Loaded Language
Appeal to Fear
New York Post · right
10.0% of sentences flagged
Conspiracy Appeal
Christian Science Monitor · center
5.1% of sentences flagged
Name Calling
New York Post · right
4.3% of sentences flagged
Conspiracy Appeal
NPR · left
3.8% of sentences flagged
Loaded Language
BBC News · center
2.1% of sentences flagged
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How these articles were chosen
- Sources are a fixed, version-controlled list of outlets, not picked per day.
- Equal numbers are taken from left-, center-, and
right-rated outlets, using the
AllSides
media bias ratings — those labels are theirs, not ours.
- Within an outlet we take the most recent articles from its politics or world
section feed. No human picks the interesting ones.
- Live blogs, podcasts, video and photo galleries are skipped — they contain
too little text to analyze.
The full source list
Ratings below are AllSides' own labels
(retrieved 2026-07-31),
not ours. We group Left and Lean Left together, and
Lean Right and Right together, which balances direction
but not intensity — the exact ratings are here so you can judge that yourself.
- Left:
The Guardian (US) (Left),
NPR (Lean Left),
Vox (Left),
Mother Jones (Left)
- Center:
BBC News (Center),
Christian Science Monitor (Center),
The Hill (Center),
UPI (Center)
- Right:
Fox News (Right),
New York Post (Right),
Washington Examiner (Lean Right),
Reason (Lean Right)
Limitations worth knowing
- Biasly detects manipulation techniques, not left/right tilt.
- The model has known false positives on strong-but-legitimate
language — particularly military reporting and opinion writing in the
author's own voice.
- We list the techniques found. A technique flag is not a
claim that an article is false, and we don't rank outlets against each other.
- Articles where the model found nothing are not published — there'd be
nothing on the page.
- Each article is analyzed once, at the time shown on its page. Outlets
sometimes update articles after publication, so a
quoted phrase may no longer appear in the current version.
- Findings may include language an outlet is quoting rather than
asserting — a politician's attack line, or an opponent's own words.
We flag technique wherever it appears, including inside quotations.
- We link to each original article and quote only short phrases as evidence.