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ABC News says one dead and 140 missing, RTÉ says six dead and 130

Four reports on one capsizing in the Java Sea give four sets of numbers. The gap is five hours of publication, not a conflict of accounts — but none of the four says what its figure counts.

Six dead and 130 missing after ferry capsizes in Indonesia
Six dead and 130 missing after ferry capsizes in Indonesia as published by TheJournal.ie · seen at TheJournal.ie
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Four reports, four sets of numbers. All four cover the same ferry capsizing in the Java Sea on Sunday. None says what its figure counts or the hour at which it was taken.

Outlet Dead Missing Aboard Rescued Whose figure
ABC News (Australia) 1 140 243 — no source named
RTÉ News at least six 130 — — "Rescuers in Indonesia said"
TheJournal.ie 6 130 — — no source named
CBC News at least six about 130 — 107 "rescuers said"

The gap is the clock. ABC News published at 05:46 GMT, five hours before RTÉ News and nearly seven before CBC News. Its lower toll and higher missing count are an earlier hour of the same count, not a rival account.

One number makes the others readable. Only ABC News says 243 people were aboard, and only ABC News gives the route, Surabaya to Banjarmasin. In the other three, a reader has a missing figure with nothing to measure it against. Only CBC News counts the rescued.

What is not settled. The 107 rescued appears in one report and nowhere else; so does the total of 243 aboard. No report we hold names a single passenger — dead, rescued or missing — and none names the ship's operator. In all four, the weather is the only actor named.

What this is about. A passenger ferry crossing between two Indonesian islands overturned in bad weather in the Java Sea in mid-September 2026, and the reports that reached readers in Australia, Ireland and Canada do not agree on how many people died and how many are still unaccounted for.

How it got here. Indonesia is an archipelago state: its provinces are separated by water, and ferries are ordinary public transport there, carrying people, vehicles and freight on scheduled routes rather than tourists on excursions. The Java Sea lies between Java, the country's most populous island and the site of the port of Surabaya, and Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of Borneo, where Banjarmasin is the main port of South Kalimantan. There is no road between the two. ABC News (Australia) is the only report we hold that names the route the ship was on, Surabaya to Banjarmasin. Counts in a sea accident are provisional by nature: the starting point is the passenger list, survivors are subtracted as they are landed and the dead are added as bodies are recovered, so a figure carries the hour it was taken.

Who is in it. Search and rescue in Indonesian waters is the responsibility of the national search and rescue agency, Basarnas, working with the navy and local authorities; no report we hold names the agency, the ship or its operator. CBC News photographed relatives at the rescuers' command centre in Banjarmasin, reading a passenger list for their families' names.

What is at stake. Whether the people listed as missing are found alive, and how long a search can continue in the sea conditions rescuers described.

Where it stands. The last report we hold was published on Sunday 13 September 2026, shortly after midday GMT. The search was still under way and about 130 people were missing. We hold nothing later than that.

What is being argued about

  • How many died and how many are missing after a ferry capsized in the Java Sea
  • Whether the four death tolls conflict or simply stop at different hours
  • What the missing figure counts, and how many people were aboard
  • Who is named as the source of the numbers, and who is named at all
Four reports, four arithmeticsSide by side
outletdeadmissingaboardrescuedattributed?
ABC News (Australia)1140243—no — stated flat
RTÉ Newsat least six130——yes — "Rescuers in Indonesia said"
TheJournal.iesix130——no — stated flat
CBC Newsat least sixabout 130—107yes — "rescuers said"
What each report says, in its own words. A dash means the report does not give that figure.
Sources ABC News (Australia)
Centre estimate · not a score
ABC News (Australia) 🇦🇺AU · public broadcaster · public-service One dead, 140 missing as passenger ship hits bad weather Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at ABC News (Australia) → What we have measured Actor label and hedge The same man is called 'far-right' and named by his legal name. The act is hedged with 'allegedly', where the longer report states it flat. ×1A different count, stated flat one dead and 140 missing, unattributed, earliest of the four ×1Affected counted The only report to count the local people affected ×1Are the dead named one of the dead named, through a relative at the hospital ×1 from 4667 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → R RTÉ News
Centre estimate · not a score
RTÉ News 🇮🇪IE · digital · PUBLIC Six dead, 130 missing after Indonesian ferry capsizes Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at RTÉ News → What we have measured Abstraction as the actor the dispute acts and no one in it is named ×1Account taken as default the police description of the crowd as 'hostile' is carried with no other account ×1Accuracy the Slovenia entry in the country list repeats Austria's name ×1Active voice offender Donaldson is named as the one who did the abuse, in the active voice. ×1 from 2361 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → T TheJournal.ie
Centre estimate · not a score
TheJournal.ie 🇮🇪IE · digital · Six dead and 130 missing after ferry capsizes in Indonesia Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at TheJournal.ie → What we have measured Accuracy of attribution The report calls the Tánaiste the Taoiseach partway through. That puts his words under another office. ×1Accusation carried without a reply a charge against a named party, no answer from it in the text held ×1Actor labelling calls the accusers 'opposition parties' when the named accuser is the deputy First Minister ×1Actor mislabelled The first line calls the accusers 'opposition parties', but the accuser quoted is the DUP deputy First Minister, who sits in the same executive ×1 from 2218 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → C CBC News
Centre-left estimate · not a score
CBC News 🇨🇦CA · public broadcaster · public-service Search underway for about 130 people after Indonesian ferry overturns Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at CBC News → What we have measured Asserted vs attributed the measure is attributed to the three governments; the territory is called occupied in the outlet's own voice ×1Attribution kept in the headline the sourcing travels with the claim into the headline ×1Figure rounded in the headline more than 600 in the headline; the body sources it to a flight-tracking site ×1How the sourcing is hedged the claim is hedged to an unnamed newspaper in both headline and body; the reporting is not held by this report ×1 from 2730 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
Seven hours of counting, as publishedTimeline
  1. 2026-09-1305:46 published time on the report ABC News (Australia) One dead, 140 missing; 243 people aboard, Surabaya to Banjarmasin 1 dead / 140 missingThe only report that says how many were aboard. No source named for the toll.
  2. 2026-09-1311:07 published time on the report RTÉ News Rescuers said at least six killed and 130 missing after the ferry was hit by bad weather 6 dead / 130 missingThe figures are attributed inside the sentence.
  3. 2026-09-1312:06 published time on the report TheJournal.ie Six dead and 130 missing; rescuers battled waves of up to 2.5 metres 6 dead / 130 missingToll stated in the headline with no source.
  4. 2026-09-1312:36 published time on the report CBC News About 130 missing, 107 rescued, bodies of six passengers recovered 6 dead / 130 missing / 107 rescuedThe only rescued figure we hold.
Publication times as carried by each report, in GMT.
Sources ABC News (Australia)
Centre estimate · not a score
ABC News (Australia) 🇦🇺AU · public broadcaster · public-service One dead, 140 missing as passenger ship hits bad weather Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at ABC News (Australia) → What we have measured Actor label and hedge The same man is called 'far-right' and named by his legal name. The act is hedged with 'allegedly', where the longer report states it flat. ×1A different count, stated flat one dead and 140 missing, unattributed, earliest of the four ×1Affected counted The only report to count the local people affected ×1Are the dead named one of the dead named, through a relative at the hospital ×1 from 4667 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → R RTÉ News
Centre estimate · not a score
RTÉ News 🇮🇪IE · digital · PUBLIC Six dead, 130 missing after Indonesian ferry capsizes Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at RTÉ News → What we have measured Abstraction as the actor the dispute acts and no one in it is named ×1Account taken as default the police description of the crowd as 'hostile' is carried with no other account ×1Accuracy the Slovenia entry in the country list repeats Austria's name ×1Active voice offender Donaldson is named as the one who did the abuse, in the active voice. ×1 from 2361 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → T TheJournal.ie
Centre estimate · not a score
TheJournal.ie 🇮🇪IE · digital · Six dead and 130 missing after ferry capsizes in Indonesia Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at TheJournal.ie → What we have measured Accuracy of attribution The report calls the Tánaiste the Taoiseach partway through. That puts his words under another office. ×1Accusation carried without a reply a charge against a named party, no answer from it in the text held ×1Actor labelling calls the accusers 'opposition parties' when the named accuser is the deputy First Minister ×1Actor mislabelled The first line calls the accusers 'opposition parties', but the accuser quoted is the DUP deputy First Minister, who sits in the same executive ×1 from 2218 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → C CBC News
Centre-left estimate · not a score
CBC News 🇨🇦CA · public broadcaster · public-service Search underway for about 130 people after Indonesian ferry overturns Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at CBC News → What we have measured Asserted vs attributed the measure is attributed to the three governments; the territory is called occupied in the outlet's own voice ×1Attribution kept in the headline the sourcing travels with the claim into the headline ×1Figure rounded in the headline more than 600 in the headline; the body sources it to a flight-tracking site ×1How the sourcing is hedged the claim is hedged to an unnamed newspaper in both headline and body; the reporting is not held by this report ×1 from 2730 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
What the four reports do and do not carryChart
Counted across the four reports we hold on this capsizing.
Sources ABC News (Australia)
Centre estimate · not a score
ABC News (Australia) 🇦🇺AU · public broadcaster · public-service One dead, 140 missing as passenger ship hits bad weather Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at ABC News (Australia) → What we have measured Actor label and hedge The same man is called 'far-right' and named by his legal name. The act is hedged with 'allegedly', where the longer report states it flat. ×1A different count, stated flat one dead and 140 missing, unattributed, earliest of the four ×1Affected counted The only report to count the local people affected ×1Are the dead named one of the dead named, through a relative at the hospital ×1 from 4667 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → R RTÉ News
Centre estimate · not a score
RTÉ News 🇮🇪IE · digital · PUBLIC Six dead, 130 missing after Indonesian ferry capsizes Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at RTÉ News → What we have measured Abstraction as the actor the dispute acts and no one in it is named ×1Account taken as default the police description of the crowd as 'hostile' is carried with no other account ×1Accuracy the Slovenia entry in the country list repeats Austria's name ×1Active voice offender Donaldson is named as the one who did the abuse, in the active voice. ×1 from 2361 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → T TheJournal.ie
Centre estimate · not a score
TheJournal.ie 🇮🇪IE · digital · Six dead and 130 missing after ferry capsizes in Indonesia Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at TheJournal.ie → What we have measured Accuracy of attribution The report calls the Tánaiste the Taoiseach partway through. That puts his words under another office. ×1Accusation carried without a reply a charge against a named party, no answer from it in the text held ×1Actor labelling calls the accusers 'opposition parties' when the named accuser is the deputy First Minister ×1Actor mislabelled The first line calls the accusers 'opposition parties', but the accuser quoted is the DUP deputy First Minister, who sits in the same executive ×1 from 2218 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → C CBC News
Centre-left estimate · not a score
CBC News 🇨🇦CA · public broadcaster · public-service Search underway for about 130 people after Indonesian ferry overturns Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at CBC News → What we have measured Asserted vs attributed the measure is attributed to the three governments; the territory is called occupied in the outlet's own voice ×1Attribution kept in the headline the sourcing travels with the claim into the headline ×1Figure rounded in the headline more than 600 in the headline; the body sources it to a flight-tracking site ×1How the sourcing is hedged the claim is hedged to an unnamed newspaper in both headline and body; the reporting is not held by this report ×1 from 2730 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
The bias in this coverageBias

Two death tolls, seven hours apart

The earliest report we hold says one dead and 140 missing; three later ones say six dead and about 130 missing. The gap is time, not dispute — but only one report says both figures come from rescuers, and only one says 243 people were aboard, which is what makes either missing figure readable. Two of the four report a death toll with no source named in the sentence.

3 reports giving six dead 1 reports giving one dead 1 of four reports, those saying how many were aboard 2 of four reports, those attributing the toll to rescuers

Nobody is named

No report names a single passenger, dead, rescued or missing. One shows a photograph of families reading a passenger list for their relatives' names. The ferry operator is not named in any of the four.

0 reports naming any of the dead 0 reports naming the ferry operator 1 reports counting the rescued
Scored without the mastheads. Where the two passes differ, both are kept.
Sources C CBC News
Centre-left estimate · not a score
CBC News 🇨🇦CA · public broadcaster · public-service Search underway for about 130 people after Indonesian ferry overturns Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at CBC News → What we have measured Asserted vs attributed the measure is attributed to the three governments; the territory is called occupied in the outlet's own voice ×1Attribution kept in the headline the sourcing travels with the claim into the headline ×1Figure rounded in the headline more than 600 in the headline; the body sources it to a flight-tracking site ×1How the sourcing is hedged the claim is hedged to an unnamed newspaper in both headline and body; the reporting is not held by this report ×1 from 2730 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → T TheJournal.ie
Centre estimate · not a score
TheJournal.ie 🇮🇪IE · digital · Six dead and 130 missing after ferry capsizes in Indonesia Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at TheJournal.ie → What we have measured Accuracy of attribution The report calls the Tánaiste the Taoiseach partway through. That puts his words under another office. ×1Accusation carried without a reply a charge against a named party, no answer from it in the text held ×1Actor labelling calls the accusers 'opposition parties' when the named accuser is the deputy First Minister ×1Actor mislabelled The first line calls the accusers 'opposition parties', but the accuser quoted is the DUP deputy First Minister, who sits in the same executive ×1 from 2218 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → R RTÉ News
Centre estimate · not a score
RTÉ News 🇮🇪IE · digital · PUBLIC Six dead, 130 missing after Indonesian ferry capsizes Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at RTÉ News → What we have measured Abstraction as the actor the dispute acts and no one in it is named ×1Account taken as default the police description of the crowd as 'hostile' is carried with no other account ×1Accuracy the Slovenia entry in the country list repeats Austria's name ×1Active voice offender Donaldson is named as the one who did the abuse, in the active voice. ×1 from 2361 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → ABC News (Australia)
Centre estimate · not a score
ABC News (Australia) 🇦🇺AU · public broadcaster · public-service One dead, 140 missing as passenger ship hits bad weather Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at ABC News (Australia) → What we have measured Actor label and hedge The same man is called 'far-right' and named by his legal name. The act is hedged with 'allegedly', where the longer report states it flat. ×1A different count, stated flat one dead and 140 missing, unattributed, earliest of the four ×1Affected counted The only report to count the local people affected ×1Are the dead named one of the dead named, through a relative at the hospital ×1 from 4667 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →

Claims and verdicts

true At least six people died and about 130 were missing after the ferry capsized in the Java Sea.
CBC News, RTÉ and TheJournal.ie all give six dead and about 130 missing; ABC News in Australia gives one dead and 140 missing, but its report was published at 05:46 GMT, some five hours before the others, as the toll was still being counted. The difference is the hour of publication, not a conflict of accounts.
Checked against 4 sources:
C CBC News
Centre-left estimate · not a score
CBC News 🇨🇦CA · public broadcaster · public-service Search underway for about 130 people after Indonesian ferry overturns Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at CBC News → What we have measured Asserted vs attributed the measure is attributed to the three governments; the territory is called occupied in the outlet's own voice ×1Attribution kept in the headline the sourcing travels with the claim into the headline ×1Figure rounded in the headline more than 600 in the headline; the body sources it to a flight-tracking site ×1How the sourcing is hedged the claim is hedged to an unnamed newspaper in both headline and body; the reporting is not held by this report ×1 from 2730 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → T TheJournal.ie
Centre estimate · not a score
TheJournal.ie 🇮🇪IE · digital · Six dead and 130 missing after ferry capsizes in Indonesia Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at TheJournal.ie → What we have measured Accuracy of attribution The report calls the Tánaiste the Taoiseach partway through. That puts his words under another office. ×1Accusation carried without a reply a charge against a named party, no answer from it in the text held ×1Actor labelling calls the accusers 'opposition parties' when the named accuser is the deputy First Minister ×1Actor mislabelled The first line calls the accusers 'opposition parties', but the accuser quoted is the DUP deputy First Minister, who sits in the same executive ×1 from 2218 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → R RTÉ News
Centre estimate · not a score
RTÉ News 🇮🇪IE · digital · PUBLIC Six dead, 130 missing after Indonesian ferry capsizes Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at RTÉ News → What we have measured Abstraction as the actor the dispute acts and no one in it is named ×1Account taken as default the police description of the crowd as 'hostile' is carried with no other account ×1Accuracy the Slovenia entry in the country list repeats Austria's name ×1Active voice offender Donaldson is named as the one who did the abuse, in the active voice. ×1 from 2361 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → ABC News (Australia)
Centre estimate · not a score
ABC News (Australia) 🇦🇺AU · public broadcaster · public-service One dead, 140 missing as passenger ship hits bad weather Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at ABC News (Australia) → What we have measured Actor label and hedge The same man is called 'far-right' and named by his legal name. The act is hedged with 'allegedly', where the longer report states it flat. ×1A different count, stated flat one dead and 140 missing, unattributed, earliest of the four ×1Affected counted The only report to count the local people affected ×1Are the dead named one of the dead named, through a relative at the hospital ×1 from 4667 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
unverified 107 people were rescued.
Only CBC News gives a rescue figure, attributing it to rescuers. No other report we hold carries a number of survivors, so there is nothing to corroborate it against.
Checked against 1 source:
C CBC News
Centre-left estimate · not a score
CBC News 🇨🇦CA · public broadcaster · public-service Search underway for about 130 people after Indonesian ferry overturns Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at CBC News → What we have measured Asserted vs attributed the measure is attributed to the three governments; the territory is called occupied in the outlet's own voice ×1Attribution kept in the headline the sourcing travels with the claim into the headline ×1Figure rounded in the headline more than 600 in the headline; the body sources it to a flight-tracking site ×1How the sourcing is hedged the claim is hedged to an unnamed newspaper in both headline and body; the reporting is not held by this report ×1 from 2730 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
unverified The ship was carrying 243 people from Surabaya to Banjarmasin.
Only ABC News in Australia gives the passenger total and the route. CBC News, RTÉ and TheJournal.ie describe a crossing between Java and Borneo without a manifest figure.
Checked against 1 source:
ABC News (Australia)
Centre estimate · not a score
ABC News (Australia) 🇦🇺AU · public broadcaster · public-service One dead, 140 missing as passenger ship hits bad weather Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at ABC News (Australia) → What we have measured Actor label and hedge The same man is called 'far-right' and named by his legal name. The act is hedged with 'allegedly', where the longer report states it flat. ×1A different count, stated flat one dead and 140 missing, unattributed, earliest of the four ×1Affected counted The only report to count the local people affected ×1Are the dead named one of the dead named, through a relative at the hospital ×1 from 4667 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →

Who wrote it

4 reports we hold carry no byline — we do not invent one.

Coverage, outlet by outlet

C CBC News
Centre-left estimate · not a score
CBC News 🇨🇦CA · public broadcaster · public-service Search underway for about 130 people after Indonesian ferry overturns Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at CBC News → What we have measured Asserted vs attributed the measure is attributed to the three governments; the territory is called occupied in the outlet's own voice ×1Attribution kept in the headline the sourcing travels with the claim into the headline ×1Figure rounded in the headline more than 600 in the headline; the body sources it to a flight-tracking site ×1How the sourcing is hedged the claim is hedged to an unnamed newspaper in both headline and body; the reporting is not held by this report ×1 from 2730 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → — public-service
CBC News is the only report that counts the rescued — 107 — and the only one that hedges the missing figure, "about 130". It attributes both to rescuers, and its photograph shows families reading a passenger list in
The ferry with more than 240 people was travelling from Surabaya in East Java to Banjarmasin in South Kalimantan province, on Borneo Island, officials said. The vessel’s captain had reported rough seas with waves up to three metres before issuing a distress call, saying the ship was listing, said I Putu Sudayana, who heads the Banjarmasin Search and Rescue Office. Authorities later received information indicating the vessel had overturned. The rescue agency in Banjarmasin said it received a report two hours after contact was lost with the Virgo Transport 8 at about 2 a.m. on Sunday. A rescue s
Which figure was chosen: the only report that also counts the rescued, and hedges the missing with "about" — “leaving about 130 passengers and crew missing, rescuers said. At least 107 people were rescued and the bodies of six passengers were recovered.”
Who is pictured, who is named: families searching a passenger list are shown; no passenger, dead or missing, is named in any report — “People look for the names of their family members on a passenger list after a ferry overturned in bad weather in the Java Sea, at the rescuers command center in Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan, Indonesia, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2026.”
Who is named as acting: no operator, no cause named; the ferry acts alone — “A ferry overturned in bad weather in Indonesia’s Java Sea on Sunday, leaving about 130 passengers and crew missing, rescuers said.”
The dead counted, never named: bodies recovered, in the passive — “At least 107 people were rescued and the bodies of six passengers were recovered.”
Read it at CBC News → https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/indonesia-ferry-overturned-search-underwa…
T TheJournal.ie
Centre estimate · not a score
TheJournal.ie 🇮🇪IE · digital · Six dead and 130 missing after ferry capsizes in Indonesia Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at TheJournal.ie → What we have measured Accuracy of attribution The report calls the Tánaiste the Taoiseach partway through. That puts his words under another office. ×1Accusation carried without a reply a charge against a named party, no answer from it in the text held ×1Actor labelling calls the accusers 'opposition parties' when the named accuser is the deputy First Minister ×1Actor mislabelled The first line calls the accusers 'opposition parties', but the accuser quoted is the DUP deputy First Minister, who sits in the same executive ×1 from 2218 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → —
TheJournal.ie is the only report that gives the sea state — waves of up to 2.5 metres — and its whole text is about the rescuers rather than the passengers. Its headline states six dead and 130 missing flat, with no
An account is an optional way to support the work we do. Find out more. AT LEAST SIX people have died and 130 others are missing after a ferry sailing between the islands of Java and Borneo was hit by bad weather and capsized. The Virgo Transport 8, carrying 243 passengers and crew, had lost contact with its shipping company early on Sunday after departing from Surabaya in East Java. Basarnas, Indonesia’s national search and rescue agency, said in its latest update that six people were killed and 130 were missing. It said 107 people had been rescued. There were 213 passengers and 30 crew membe
What is stated flat: the death toll is asserted in the headline with no source attached — “Six dead and 130 missing after ferry capsizes in Indonesia”
Who is named as acting: the only line of the report is about the rescuers' conditions, not the passengers — “Rescuers battled waves of up to 2.5 metres to reach the ferry.”
Figures stated flat in the headline: no source given for either number — “Six dead and 130 missing after ferry capsizes in Indonesia”
Read it at TheJournal.ie → https://www.thejournal.ie/ferry-capsize-java-borneo-7161521-Sep2026/
R RTÉ News
Centre estimate · not a score
RTÉ News 🇮🇪IE · digital · PUBLIC Six dead, 130 missing after Indonesian ferry capsizes Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at RTÉ News → What we have measured Abstraction as the actor the dispute acts and no one in it is named ×1Account taken as default the police description of the crowd as 'hostile' is carried with no other account ×1Accuracy the Slovenia entry in the country list repeats Austria's name ×1Active voice offender Donaldson is named as the one who did the abuse, in the active voice. ×1 from 2361 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → — PUBLIC
RTÉ News is the only report that puts the figures inside an attributed sentence: "Rescuers in Indonesia said at least six people were killed and 130 others were missing."
Six dead, 130 missing after Indonesian ferry capsizes Updated / Sunday, 13 Sep 2026 12:28 Rescuers in Indonesia said that 107 people had been saved after the ferry capsized Rescuers in Indonesia said at least six people were killed and 130 others were missing after a ferry sailing between the islands of Java and Borneo was hit by bad weather and capsized. The Virgo Transport 8, carrying 243 passengers and crew, had lost contact with its shipping company early today after departing from Surabaya in east Java. Basarnas, Indonesia's national search and rescue agency, said in its latest update tha
Who says the number: the same figures are attributed to rescuers inside the sentence — “Rescuers in Indonesia said at least six people were killed and 130 others were missing after a ferry sailing between the islands of Java and Borneo was hit by bad weather and capsized.”
Figures attributed to rescuers: attributed inside the sentence — “Rescuers in Indonesia said at least six people were killed and 130 others were missing after a ferry sailing between the islands of Java and Borneo was hit by bad weather and capsized.”
Read it at RTÉ News → https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0913/1591364-indonesia-ferry/
ABC News (Australia)
Centre estimate · not a score
ABC News (Australia) 🇦🇺AU · public broadcaster · public-service One dead, 140 missing as passenger ship hits bad weather Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at ABC News (Australia) → What we have measured Actor label and hedge The same man is called 'far-right' and named by his legal name. The act is hedged with 'allegedly', where the longer report states it flat. ×1A different count, stated flat one dead and 140 missing, unattributed, earliest of the four ×1Affected counted The only report to count the local people affected ×1Are the dead named one of the dead named, through a relative at the hospital ×1 from 4667 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → — public-service
ABC News in Australia is the only report that says how many people were aboard — 243 — and the only one that gives the route, Surabaya to Banjarmasin. It is also the earliest, and its headline states one dead and 140
One dead, 140 missing as Indonesian passenger ship carrying more than 240 goes missing in bad weather Topic:Oceans Posted Sun 13 Sep 2026 at 3:46pmSun 13 Sep 2026 at 3:46pmSun 13 Sep 2026 at 3:46pm, updated Sun 13 Sep 2026 at 6:20pmSun 13 Sep 2026 at 6:20pmSun 13 Sep 2026 at 6:20pm An Indonesian passenger ship carrying more than 240 people has gone dark after encountering bad weather in the Java Sea. (AFP) In short One person has died, and 103 others have been evacuated from an Indonesian passenger ship that went missing after encountering bad weather. The ship, carrying 243 people, had depart
Which figure was chosen: the earliest report gives one dead and 140 missing, and is the only one saying how many were aboard — “The passenger ship, carrying 243 people, had departed from Surabaya, Indonesia's second-largest city in East Java, and was bound for Banjarmasin in Kalimantan.”
A different count, stated flat: one dead and 140 missing, unattributed, earliest of the four — “One dead, 140 missing as passenger ship hits bad weather”
What the number counts: the only report giving the total aboard — “The passenger ship, carrying 243 people, had departed from Surabaya, Indonesia's second-largest city in East Java, and was bound for Banjarmasin in Kalimantan.”
Read it at ABC News (Australia) → https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-13/search-underway-for-indonesian-p…
Checked, didn’t cover
T The Irish Times
Centre estimate · not a score
The Irish Times 🇮🇪IE · digital · No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Actor framing The release is framed as a joint agreement, with no pressure mentioned ×1Actor named Names the residents as the ones who blocked the road ×1Actor named killers named as 'loyalist gunmen'; verb 'shot dead' ×1With no actor named construction no actor named for the theft or the driving in the standfirst ×1 from 1358 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → R RNZ
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RNZ 🇳🇿NZ · digital · PUBLIC No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Headline against body headline claims a 20-year decline reversed; the first line of the body reports a new low in reading ×1Headline against body headline claims a turnaround; the text carries a record low and puts it on boys ×1 from 2328 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → The Guardian
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The Guardian 🇬🇧UK · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Actor named Denial in the passive voice, with no one named as the person who dismissed it ×1Actor named names Israel as acting and states the death toll flat, with no source ×1Actor named Ireland named as the side that ended the conference ×1Allegation omitted the police statement is cut with an ellipsis where the other two reports carry the controlling or coercive behaviour allegation ×1 from 10552 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
Silence is recorded, not inferred — each of these was read when we built this story and carried nothing on this event.
We could not read these
BBC News
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BBC News 🇬🇧UK · public broadcaster · public-service No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Dating and attribution 'It was not until Tuesday' is a judgement about delay, not a date. No other report we hold comments on how long the German finding took. ×1How hard the claim is stated Headline says the UN voted to adopt and replace; the last sentence of the report says the vote is non-binding ×1How hard the claim is stated The qualification arrives in the last sentence and is immediately overridden by an effect the report gives no source for. ×1Which figure is used States the replacement as done — the Assembly voted to replace the map — where the resolution urges states to use a different projection. ×1 from 473 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → The Daily Telegraph
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The Daily Telegraph 🇬🇧UK · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times → The Times
Centre-right estimate · not a score
The Times 🇬🇧UK · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times →
These are must-cite outlets for this desk that we did not manage to read when we built this story. That is a gap in our reach, not a silence on their part, and it is not evidence of anything about this story.

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