Karoline Leavitt: six key takeaways from 20 months as Trump’s press secretary
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What the model flagged
⚠️ The Guardian (US) has updated this article since we analyzed it. The findings below describe the version we saw on 2026-08-13 — some quoted phrases may no longer appear in the current article.
Analyzed 2026-08-13 04:00 UTC. Articles are sometimes updated after publication — if a quote below isn't in the current version, the piece has changed since.
Findings may include language the outlet is quoting rather than asserting. We flag manipulation techniques wherever they appear, including inside quotations — so check each quote against the original before drawing a conclusion about the outlet.
Loaded Language 75%
The phrase 'disgraced financier and convicted sex offender' uses emotionally charged descriptors that, while factually accurate, are stacked together to maximise negative emotional impact on the reader — for example: 'disgraced financier and convicted sex offender'
“disgraced financier and convicted sex offender”
Name Calling 97%
The reporter is directly labeled with derogatory terms to discredit them rather than address the substance of their question — for example: 'leftwing hack'
“biased reporter with a leftwing opinion”
“leftwing hack”
Appeal To Prejudice 85%
Invokes an in-group/out-group distinction by broadly condemning 'people of the media' as biased fakers who are unworthy of their position — for example: 'people of the media who have such biases but fake like you're a journalist'
“you and the people of the media who have such biases but fake like you're a journalist”
Analyzed automatically with Biasly's fine-tuned model. These are manipulation techniques, not political tilt — and finding one is not a claim that the article is false. The model has known false positives on strong-but-legitimate language, so treat each finding as a prompt to read closely, not a verdict. How articles are chosen →