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.
Name Calling
Appeal to Prejudice
Card Stacking
Loaded Language
+1 more
New York Post · right
36.8% of sentences flagged
Loaded Language
Appeal to Fear
Conspiracy Appeal
Name Calling
+1 more
Vox · left
19.6% of sentences flagged
Glittering Generalities
Name Calling
Appeal to Prejudice
Black-and-White Fallacy
Washington Examiner · right
18.2% of sentences flagged
False Equivalence
Black-and-White Fallacy
Loaded Language
False Urgency
+2 more
Washington Examiner · right
15.0% of sentences flagged
Loaded Language
Appeal to Fear
Exaggeration/Hyperbole
Reason · right
13.3% of sentences flagged
Name Calling
The Guardian (US) · left
13.0% of sentences flagged
Loaded Language
Conspiracy Appeal
Name Calling
Exaggeration/Hyperbole
+2 more
Mother Jones · left
11.4% of sentences flagged
Appeal to Fear
Loaded Language
BBC News · center
10.9% of sentences flagged
Loaded Language
UPI · center
8.6% of sentences flagged
Repetition
Loaded Language
Name Calling
Christian Science Monitor · center
8.1% of sentences flagged
Loaded Language
Name Calling
Appeal to Fear
Mother Jones · left
8.0% of sentences flagged
Loaded Language
Appeal to Fear
Conspiracy Appeal
Scapegoating
Fox News · right
6.1% of sentences flagged
False Urgency
Appeal to Fear
Vox · left
5.0% of sentences flagged
False Urgency
Glittering Generalities
Christian Science Monitor · center
4.2% of sentences flagged
Appeal to Prejudice
Glittering Generalities
BBC News · center
2.0% 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.