Mike Stobbe
Byline seen at The Independent.
person
17 reports under this byline
1 outlet
7 bias readings
3 claims checked
9 Sep 2026 → 29 Oct 2026
Roles
| Outlet | Role | From | To | Source |
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The Independent
Centre-left
estimate · not a score
The Independent
🇬🇧UK ·
digital · independent
What we have measured
Accused party response Russia's side is reported as no comment. ×1A company statement about itself, taken as a "reveals" rather than "says", for a company's account of its own product ×1A count stated flat four crimes is given as a settled number in the headline, with no court, charge or jurisdiction attached ×1Actor named No actor named for the cut-short or for the clashes ×1
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Bias we have measured on this byline
Assertion unattributed The claim that regulators are doing fewer foreign inspections is stated in the outlet's own voice. It gives no figure and no source. ×1Assertion vs attribution Says flat, with no source, that US regulators are inspecting less abroad ×1Headline body gap The headline rounds cases up to 13,000 and says the origin is unknown. The body names Taylor Farms lettuce from central Mexico as the source. ×1Headline vs body The headline says the origin is unknown, but the body names Taylor Farms as the source of the lettuce. What is unknown is how the lettuce got contaminated ×1
Claims we checked that rest on their reporting:
1 misleading2 true
From 17 reports we hold under this byline, at
The Independent.
Two independent readings, each made without the masthead, with the quote attached to every tag. We do not carry a rating for any
journalist — only what we have measured from published text, and a verdict on a
claim is a verdict on that sentence, not on the person who filed it.
Headlines they wrote
