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Rzeczpospolita's headline detains two men. Wyborcza, quoting the police, counts one.

Police say they detained Roman Ż. in Silesia on Saturday afternoon and seized valuable watches and Zondacrypto papers. Both Polish papers we hold carry that, in the same words. Only Rzeczpospolita adds a second man — Jarosław S., the sitting marshal of Lubelskie province — and its own body sources him to TVN24, not to the prosecutors it quotes at length.

Marszałek województwa lubelskiego i Roman Ż. zatrzymani w śledztwie dotyczącym Zondacrypto
Marszałek województwa lubelskiego i Roman Ż. zatrzymani w śledztwie dotyczącym Zondacrypto as published by Rzeczpospolita · seen at Rzeczpospolita
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What both reports carry. Cybercrime officers and Silesian police detained Roman Ż. in Silesia on Saturday afternoon and seized valuable watches and Zondacrypto papers. Both papers print the same police wording. Only Rzeczpospolita adds the Prosecutor General's spokeswoman, Anna Adamiak, who gives flight risk as the reason and says he will be charged in Katowice.

Where they part.

Reported by Who was detained On whose word
Gazeta Wyborcza Roman Ż. only the police
Rzeczpospolita, headline Roman Ż. and Jarosław S., marshal of Lubelskie none given
Rzeczpospolita, body Roman Ż. the police, and Anna Adamiak
Rzeczpospolita, body Jarosław S. TVN24

The allegation behind the second name is Rzeczpospolita's own. It says the marshal put hundreds of thousands of złoty into Zondacrypto tokens and, on its sources, lobbied the exchange's chief Przemysław Kral to rescue his money. No prosecutor quoted in either report names him. Jan Grabiec, head of the prime minister's chancellery, told TVN24 that more would be known in "a matter of hours and the coming days".

What the coverage does not settle. Whether a second man was detained at all. Our two independent readings agree on every count they share and split only on where the asymmetry sits: one in the verbs, one in the headline. Neither paper carries the other's account, and between them they give the several thousand people who filed complaints one line.

What this is about. Polish prosecutors are investigating the collapse of Zondacrypto, a Polish cryptocurrency exchange, and whether people with political or social standing used their influence to get their own money out before other customers.

How it got here.

  • March 2022. Sylwester Suszek disappears. He had run the exchange. He was last seen at a petrol station owned by a man Rzeczpospolita names as Marian W., known as "Maniek". Przemysław Kral succeeded Suszek at the top of the business.
  • April 2026. The Regional Prosecutor's Office in Katowice opens an investigation into large-scale fraud and money laundering. Rzeczpospolita reports that several thousand people have filed criminal complaints.
  • August 2026. Prosecutors merge the Zondacrypto case with the investigation into Suszek's disappearance. At the end of the month, media report that Kral is cooperating with prosecutors to seek a reduced sentence. Polish law allows this for a suspect who helps convict others.
  • The week before this story. Radosław Piesiewicz, president of the Polish Olympic Committee, is detained and held in custody. He is charged with paid influence-peddling and with paying some creditors at the expense of others. He denies it. Three more people are detained on the Wednesday and remanded on the Friday.

Who is involved, and why.

  • The prosecution service. It runs the case from Katowice. In Poland the Prosecutor General is also the Minister of Justice, so the office sits inside the government.
  • The government. A coalition led by Donald Tusk has governed since December 2023, when it replaced Law and Justice (PiS) after eight years in power. Jan Grabiec, head of the prime minister's chancellery, is speaking for it.
  • Jarosław S. A PiS politician and former member of parliament. As marshal of Lubelskie he heads the regional executive of one of Poland's sixteen provinces.
  • The customers. They are the people who filed the complaints.

What is at stake. For the customers, whether any money comes back. Kral's lawyer says Kral has put assets at prosecutors' disposal. For politics, whether the case now reaches a senior opposition office-holder.

Where it stands. No charges against the marshal appear in either report.

What is being argued about

  • Was a second man detained at all? One report says so; no prosecutor in either report confirms it.
  • Whether a headline may state as fact what its own body attributes to another broadcaster.
  • What the marshal is suspected of, if anything — neither report names a charge against him.
  • The several thousand people who filed criminal complaints, who appear once across both reports.
Who each report says was detained, and on whose wordSide by side
Reported byWho it says was detainedOn whose wordDay given?
Gazeta WyborczaRoman Ż. onlythe policeno
Rzeczpospolita — headlineRoman Ż. and Jarosław S.none givenno
Rzeczpospolita — body, first manRoman Ż.the police, and the Prosecutor General's spokeswoman Anna Adamiakyes — Saturday
Rzeczpospolita — body, second manJarosław S., marshal of LubelskieTVN24no
Rzeczpospolita is split into its headline and its body because they do not say the same thing.
Sources Rzeczpospolita
Centre-right estimate · not a score
Rzeczpospolita 🇵🇱PL · newspaper · independent Marszałek województwa lubelskiego i Roman Ż. zatrzymani w śledztwie dotyczącym Zondacrypto Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Rzeczpospolita → What we have measured Accountability The only report to say prosecutors are investigating ×1Asserted not attributed Hungary's need for more time is stated as fact, not as the government's claim ×1Claim asserted flat says EU law has never known such an offer, with no lawyer, official or text cited ×1Correction carried the correction is in the lede, attributed to Lithuania ×1 from 5701 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Gazeta Wyborcza
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Gazeta Wyborcza 🇵🇱PL · newspaper · independent Afera Zondacrypto. Prokuratura potwierdza kolejne zatrzymanie Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Gazeta Wyborcza → What we have measured Actor named Russia is named as acting against the bridge, in active voice ×1Asserted cause Voters' reason for backing the AfD is stated flat as a fact about the mainstream parties. ×1Asserted, not attributed the three-year gain is stated as what the deal would have secured, with no source ×1Asserted versus attributed the link between the pardons and the US talks is stated flat in the headline ×1 from 1246 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
The Zondacrypto case, and the 23 minutes between the two reportsTimeline
  1. March 2022— no time published Sylwester Suszek disappears; last seen at a petrol station belonging to Marian W.Przemysław Kral succeeds him at the exchange
  2. December 2025— no time published Radosław Piesiewicz buys Zondacrypto tokens; later charged with paid protection and favouring creditors €200,000He did not admit guilt
  3. April— no time published Regional Prosecutor's Office, Katowice opens the Zondacrypto investigation into large-scale fraud and money laundering several thousand complaints sincethe report gives the month, not the year
  4. August— no time published Prosecutors merge the Zondacrypto case with the investigation into Suszek's disappearancethe report gives the month, not the year
  5. Late August— no time published Polish media, as Rzeczpospolita reports them say Kral is cooperating with prosecutors and seeking crown-witness statushis lawyer Roman Giertych says he has put assets up against victims' claims
  6. Wednesday— no time published Police detain Rafał Z., Jaromira W. and Anna P.; charged, then arrested on Friday 3 detained
  7. Saturday 5 Sepafternoon the police statement says only 'in the afternoon' Cybercrime officers and Silesian police detain Roman Ż. in Silesian province and seize watches and Zondacrypto papersflight risk, per the Prosecutor General's spokeswoman
  8. Saturday 5 Sep20:33 the article's own timestamp; no time in the text we hold Gazeta Wyborcza carries the police statement — one detention, no day, no reason 1 man named
  9. Saturday 5 Sep20:56 printed on the page Rzeczpospolita puts a second man in its headline and sources him to TVN24 in its body 2 men named
Times are Warsaw time. Where a report published no time, the row says so.
Sources Rzeczpospolita
Centre-right estimate · not a score
Rzeczpospolita 🇵🇱PL · newspaper · independent Marszałek województwa lubelskiego i Roman Ż. zatrzymani w śledztwie dotyczącym Zondacrypto Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Rzeczpospolita → What we have measured Accountability The only report to say prosecutors are investigating ×1Asserted not attributed Hungary's need for more time is stated as fact, not as the government's claim ×1Claim asserted flat says EU law has never known such an offer, with no lawyer, official or text cited ×1Correction carried the correction is in the lede, attributed to Lithuania ×1 from 5701 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Gazeta Wyborcza
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Gazeta Wyborcza 🇵🇱PL · newspaper · independent Afera Zondacrypto. Prokuratura potwierdza kolejne zatrzymanie Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Gazeta Wyborcza → What we have measured Actor named Russia is named as acting against the bridge, in active voice ×1Asserted cause Voters' reason for backing the AfD is stated flat as a fact about the mainstream parties. ×1Asserted, not attributed the three-year gain is stated as what the deal would have secured, with no source ×1Asserted versus attributed the link between the pardons and the US talks is stated flat in the headline ×1 from 1246 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
The case around the two detentionsFacts optional section
  • Prosecutors in Katowice opened the Zondacrypto investigation into large-scale fraud and money laundering. Several thousand criminal complaints have been filed since. Rzeczpospolita →
  • In August the case was merged with the investigation into the disappearance of Sylwester Suszek, missing since March 2022. Rzeczpospolita →
  • Przemysław Kral, who took over the exchange from Suszek, is reported to be seeking crown-witness status. His lawyer Roman Giertych says Kral has put assets at the prosecution's disposal to meet victims' claims. Rzeczpospolita →
  • Radosław Piesiewicz, president of the Polish Olympic Committee, was detained and arrested and charged with paid protection and favouring one group of creditors. He did not admit guilt. Rzeczpospolita →
  • Three more people were detained on Wednesday and arrested on Friday: the stock investor Rafał Z., Jaromira W. and Anna P. Rzeczpospolita →
Every fact here comes from the longer of the two reports; the shorter one carries none of it.
Sources Rzeczpospolita
Centre-right estimate · not a score
Rzeczpospolita 🇵🇱PL · newspaper · independent Marszałek województwa lubelskiego i Roman Ż. zatrzymani w śledztwie dotyczącym Zondacrypto Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Rzeczpospolita → What we have measured Accountability The only report to say prosecutors are investigating ×1Asserted not attributed Hungary's need for more time is stated as fact, not as the government's claim ×1Claim asserted flat says EU law has never known such an offer, with no lawyer, official or text cited ×1Correction carried the correction is in the lede, attributed to Lithuania ×1 from 5701 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
The bias in this coverageBias

Two reports, two lists of who was detained

Both reports confirm the same detention, with the same seized watches and documents, from the same police statement. Only one adds a second man, and its sole basis is another broadcaster — the prosecution service it quotes at length names only the first. The shorter report gives no day and no reason for the detention; the longer one gives Saturday and a flight risk.

2 reports confirming the first detention 1 reports saying a second man was detained 1 sources carried for that second detention 1 reports quoting the prosecution service

Named in full, or cut to an initial

Six suspects appear as an initial and two men are named in full: the Olympic committee president and the exchange's chief. The second man's party is given in one report and nowhere else, and his conduct is written in the reported form while the fully named man's purchase is stated flat. Between them the two reports carry one line about the people who lost money.

6 suspects given an initial only 2 suspects named in full 1 reports naming the second man's party 1 reports mentioning the people who lost money
Scored without the mastheads. Where the two passes differ, both are kept.
Sources Rzeczpospolita
Centre-right estimate · not a score
Rzeczpospolita 🇵🇱PL · newspaper · independent Marszałek województwa lubelskiego i Roman Ż. zatrzymani w śledztwie dotyczącym Zondacrypto Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Rzeczpospolita → What we have measured Accountability The only report to say prosecutors are investigating ×1Asserted not attributed Hungary's need for more time is stated as fact, not as the government's claim ×1Claim asserted flat says EU law has never known such an offer, with no lawyer, official or text cited ×1Correction carried the correction is in the lede, attributed to Lithuania ×1 from 5701 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Gazeta Wyborcza
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Gazeta Wyborcza 🇵🇱PL · newspaper · independent Afera Zondacrypto. Prokuratura potwierdza kolejne zatrzymanie Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Gazeta Wyborcza → What we have measured Actor named Russia is named as acting against the bridge, in active voice ×1Asserted cause Voters' reason for backing the AfD is stated flat as a fact about the mainstream parties. ×1Asserted, not attributed the three-year gain is stated as what the deal would have secured, with no source ×1Asserted versus attributed the link between the pardons and the US talks is stated flat in the headline ×1 from 1246 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →

Claims and verdicts

unverified The marshal put hundreds of thousands of złoty into Zondacrypto tokens and lobbied the exchange's boss to rescue his own money.
Rzeczpospolita attributes this to its own sources and its own earlier reporting; nothing else we hold mentions it. No prosecutor's statement in either report names him or any charge against him.
Checked against 1 source:
Rzeczpospolita
Centre-right estimate · not a score
Rzeczpospolita 🇵🇱PL · newspaper · independent Marszałek województwa lubelskiego i Roman Ż. zatrzymani w śledztwie dotyczącym Zondacrypto Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Rzeczpospolita → What we have measured Accountability The only report to say prosecutors are investigating ×1Asserted not attributed Hungary's need for more time is stated as fact, not as the government's claim ×1Claim asserted flat says EU law has never known such an offer, with no lawyer, official or text cited ×1Correction carried the correction is in the lede, attributed to Lithuania ×1 from 5701 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
unverified The marshal of Lubelskie province, Jarosław S., was detained in the Zondacrypto investigation.
Rzeczpospolita asserts it in its headline and summary, but its own text sources it to TVN24 rather than to the police or the prosecution. Gazeta Wyborcza, quoting the police, confirms one detention only — Roman Ż. — and does not mention the marshal at all.
Checked against 2 sources:
Rzeczpospolita
Centre-right estimate · not a score
Rzeczpospolita 🇵🇱PL · newspaper · independent Marszałek województwa lubelskiego i Roman Ż. zatrzymani w śledztwie dotyczącym Zondacrypto Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Rzeczpospolita → What we have measured Accountability The only report to say prosecutors are investigating ×1Asserted not attributed Hungary's need for more time is stated as fact, not as the government's claim ×1Claim asserted flat says EU law has never known such an offer, with no lawyer, official or text cited ×1Correction carried the correction is in the lede, attributed to Lithuania ×1 from 5701 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Gazeta Wyborcza
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Gazeta Wyborcza 🇵🇱PL · newspaper · independent Afera Zondacrypto. Prokuratura potwierdza kolejne zatrzymanie Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Gazeta Wyborcza → What we have measured Actor named Russia is named as acting against the bridge, in active voice ×1Asserted cause Voters' reason for backing the AfD is stated flat as a fact about the mainstream parties. ×1Asserted, not attributed the three-year gain is stated as what the deal would have secured, with no source ×1Asserted versus attributed the link between the pardons and the US talks is stated flat in the headline ×1 from 1246 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
true Roman Ż. was detained in Silesia and police seized valuable watches and Zondacrypto documents.
Rzeczpospolita and Gazeta Wyborcza carry the same police statement in the same words, and Rzeczpospolita adds the Prosecutor General's spokeswoman, Anna Adamiak, giving flight risk as the reason and describing the searches. It is the prosecuting authority describing its own action, though both reports trace back to that one communiqué.
Checked against 2 sources:
Gazeta Wyborcza
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Gazeta Wyborcza 🇵🇱PL · newspaper · independent Afera Zondacrypto. Prokuratura potwierdza kolejne zatrzymanie Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Gazeta Wyborcza → What we have measured Actor named Russia is named as acting against the bridge, in active voice ×1Asserted cause Voters' reason for backing the AfD is stated flat as a fact about the mainstream parties. ×1Asserted, not attributed the three-year gain is stated as what the deal would have secured, with no source ×1Asserted versus attributed the link between the pardons and the US talks is stated flat in the headline ×1 from 1246 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Rzeczpospolita
Centre-right estimate · not a score
Rzeczpospolita 🇵🇱PL · newspaper · independent Marszałek województwa lubelskiego i Roman Ż. zatrzymani w śledztwie dotyczącym Zondacrypto Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Rzeczpospolita → What we have measured Accountability The only report to say prosecutors are investigating ×1Asserted not attributed Hungary's need for more time is stated as fact, not as the government's claim ×1Claim asserted flat says EU law has never known such an offer, with no lawyer, official or text cited ×1Correction carried the correction is in the lede, attributed to Lithuania ×1 from 5701 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →

Who wrote it

R Robert Biskupski Rzeczpospolita
What the bias passes found in their reporting
How hard the claim is stated both detentions stated flat in the headline; only one of them is attributed to the police in the text×1
How hard the claim is stated Standfirst asserts the second detention flat; the body has it only as another broadcaster's report.×1
How deeply it is sourced One broadcaster is the whole basis for the claim in the headline; the prosecution service quoted at length in the same report names only the first man.×1
How deeply it is sourced the second detention rests on another broadcaster, credited in the body only×1
Claims we checked that rest on their reporting
2 unverified1 true
From 172 reports we hold under this byline, at Rzeczpospolita. Two independent readings, each made without the masthead, a quote attached to every tag. A record, never a rating. Their full record →
The bylines on the reports this story is built from. Hover one for what our passes have measured on their reporting. · 1 report we hold carries no byline — we do not invent one.

Coverage, outlet by outlet

Rzeczpospolita
Centre-right estimate · not a score
Rzeczpospolita 🇵🇱PL · newspaper · independent Marszałek województwa lubelskiego i Roman Ż. zatrzymani w śledztwie dotyczącym Zondacrypto Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Rzeczpospolita → What we have measured Accountability The only report to say prosecutors are investigating ×1Asserted not attributed Hungary's need for more time is stated as fact, not as the government's claim ×1Claim asserted flat says EU law has never known such an offer, with no lawyer, official or text cited ×1Correction carried the correction is in the lede, attributed to Lithuania ×1 from 5701 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → — independent
Puts the marshal of Lubelskie, Jarosław S., in its headline as detained, then attributes him to TVN24 in its body. The only report carrying the prosecutors, the Saturday date, the flight risk and the searches — and its
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How hard the claim is stated: Standfirst asserts the second detention flat; the body has it only as another broadcaster's report. — “Zatrzymany został również urzedujący marszałek województwa lubelskiego i były poseł Jarosław S.”
How deeply it is sourced: One broadcaster is the whole basis for the claim in the headline; the prosecution service quoted at length in the same report names only the first man. — “Tvn24.pl poinformowała, że zatrzymany został również marszałek województwa lubelskiego i były poseł PiS Jarosław S.”
Who is named as acting: Suspects are cut to an initial throughout, except two men named in full — the Olympic committee president and the exchange's chief. — “W ramach śledztwa zatrzymano i aresztowano prezesa Polskiego Komitetu Olimpijskiego Radosława Piesiewicza.”
How the victims appear: The only line in either report about the people who lost money, and it counts complaints rather than people. — “Dotychczas wpłynęło kilka tysięcy zawiadomień o przestępstwie.”
How hard the claim is stated: both detentions stated flat in the headline; only one of them is attributed to the police in the text — “Marszałek województwa lubelskiego i Roman Ż. zatrzymani w śledztwie dotyczącym Zondacrypto”
How deeply it is sourced: the second detention rests on another broadcaster, credited in the body only — “Tvn24.pl poinformowała, że zatrzymany został również marszałek województwa lubelskiego i były poseł PiS Jarosław S.”
How deeply it is sourced: the substantive allegation against the politician rests on the outlet's own unnamed sources — “I według źródeł Rzeczpospolitej, podobnie jak w przypadku Radosława Piesiewicza, szefa PKOL, interweniować u szefa ZondaCrypto Przemysława Krala, by z upadającej, niewypłacalnej giełdy uratować własne środki.”
How the victims appear: the people who lost money appear once, as a count of criminal complaints — “Dotychczas wpłynęło kilka tysięcy zawiadomień o przestępstwie.”
Read it at Rzeczpospolita → https://www.rp.pl/przestepczosc/art45101911-marszalek-wojewodztwa-lubel…
Gazeta Wyborcza
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Gazeta Wyborcza 🇵🇱PL · newspaper · independent Afera Zondacrypto. Prokuratura potwierdza kolejne zatrzymanie Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Gazeta Wyborcza → What we have measured Actor named Russia is named as acting against the bridge, in active voice ×1Asserted cause Voters' reason for backing the AfD is stated flat as a fact about the mainstream parties. ×1Asserted, not attributed the three-year gain is stated as what the deal would have secured, with no source ×1Asserted versus attributed the link between the pardons and the US talks is stated flat in the headline ×1 from 1246 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → — independent
Confirms one detention and one only, on the police's word: "Służby zatrzymały na terenie woj. śląskiego Romana Ż.", with the watches and the Zondacrypto papers. One paragraph — no day, no reason, no units named, no
Służby zatrzymały na terenie woj. śląskiego Romana Ż. w związku ze śledztwem dotyczącym Zondacrypto - przekazała policja. W trakcie przeszukania policjanci zabezpieczyli wartościowe zegarki oraz dokumentację związaną z Zondacrypto - dodano.
Dating and attribution: Carries the police line and nothing else: no day for the detention, no reason for it, and no second man. — “Służby zatrzymały na terenie woj. śląskiego Romana Ż. w związku ze śledztwem dotyczącym Zondacrypto - przekazała policja.”
Who is named as acting: the services as the actor, where the other report names two police forces and the prosecution unit — “Służby zatrzymały na terenie woj. śląskiego Romana Ż. w związku ze śledztwem dotyczącym Zondacrypto - przekazała policja.”
Dating and attribution: no day given for the detention anywhere in the report; the other dates it to Saturday — “W trakcie przeszukania policjanci zabezpieczyli wartościowe zegarki oraz dokumentację związaną z Zondacrypto - dodano.”
Read it at Gazeta Wyborcza → https://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,33007307,afera-zondacrypto-prokuratura-potw…
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D De Telegraaf
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De Telegraaf 🇳🇱NL · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Accused named the accused is named and aged, and his not-guilty plea is carried ×1Accused's voice carries the not-guilty plea and names the accused ×1Actor named Authorities named as the ones who made the arrests ×1Asserted vs attributed 'blackmail' stated flat, with no source and no named state that applied it ×1 from 10020 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → P Público
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Público 🇵🇹PT · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Anyone hurt The only report carrying casualties gives a count and no names ×1Asserted or attributed the Saudi account arrives as a confirmation, not a claim ×1Casualties stated flat, unnamed the same two deaths are stated without source and without who killed them ×1Flat context The same Iran link is stated flat, with no source ×1 from 3295 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → ABC
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ABC 🇪🇸ES · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Figure chosen 80,000, stated flat and unsourced; every other report we hold says about 70,000 ×1Figure chosen 80,000 crossed, stated flat, no source for the number ×1How hard the claim is stated Calls it an invasion in the outlet's own voice, unattributed, inside a sentence about the judge. ×1Which figure is used same two days, no figure at all: thousands ×1 from 225 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → D De Standaard
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De Standaard 🇧🇪BE · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Actor named Russia is named as acting on the bridge, in active voice ×1Asserted vs attributed states sabotage flat, with no source ×1Asserted vs attributed states flat, with no source, that the officers were wrong to suspect him ×1Attribution The whole arrest is sourced second-hand to other media. ×1 from 4325 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Deník N
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Deník N 🇨🇿CZ · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Actor named The headline names speculators as the actors who evicted a grandmother, stated flat. ×1Asserted, and a government judged A wave of Russian state terrorism is stated as fact and Germany is rated on its response; the piece is labelled a comment ×1Asserted, not attributed Washington's refusal and its reasoning stated flat, with no source ×1Assessment stated flat Says in its own voice, with no source, that Russian air defence worked well. ×1 from 1266 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → El Mundo
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El Mundo 🇪🇸ES · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Actor named The dispute is between named Spanish officials over who was warned. There is no figure of Moroccan personnel. ×1Actor named The dispute is between named officials, and the report carries no figure. ×1Asserted, not attributed defiance of a named president is stated flat as what the meeting was ×1Asserted not attributed States Moscow's own reason, retaliation, as fact ×1 from 4700 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Corriere della Sera
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Corriere della Sera 🇮🇹IT · 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 → Brussels Signal
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Brussels Signal 🇧🇪BE · digital · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Asserted vs attributed cause and effect on services asserted in the reporter's voice, no figure attached ×1Asserted vs attributed States record diesel prices flat, with no source; another report says there is no shortage ×1Asserted vs attributed The figure of 72 is stated flat, with no named source or document. The report's own inference is 'significant infiltration'. ×1Asserted vs attributed record diesel prices stated flat, with no figure and no source ×1 from 674 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Kathimerini
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Kathimerini 🇬🇷GR · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Anyone hurt counted, not named the same first witness, identified by his job and as one of 57 ×1What is counted the only report that counts how many defendants actually turned up ×1Whose voice is quoted the only defendant's words we hold, three words, unrebutted and unexplained ×1Word for the event rail accident, and without the article, further loosening it from the case ×1 from 115 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Dagens Nyheter
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Dagens Nyheter 🇸🇪SE · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Accused label flat accused is labelled far-right without attribution, and not named ×1Affected counted Only report to count the residents affected ×1Asserted or attributed the majority stated flat, with nobody credited for the count ×1Asserted or attributed the demand is written as the report's own flat sentence before it is attributed to anyone ×1 from 3487 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Digi24
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Digi24 🇷🇴RO · TV/radio · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured A judgement of the Union quoted in the headline the premier's verdict on the Union printed as the headline claim ×1Asserted vs attributed states flat, with no source, that the attackers were separate from the shepherds ×1Asserted vs attributed States flat that the document is fake; another report sources this to the Order's ambassador ×1Attributed, not asserted Russia's account of where the strike happened is given to the Kremlin, with the news agency chain named ×1 from 5389 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Le Soir
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Le Soir 🇧🇪BE · 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 → Efimerida ton Syntakton
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Efimerida ton Syntakton 🇬🇷GR · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Adjective without figure Calls the war bloody but gives no count ×1Anyone hurt named the only report we hold that names one of the dead ×1Anyone hurt named the only report we hold that names a person who died ×1Asserted not attributed Calls the move 'unprecedented' in its own voice ×1 from 8180 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Der Standard
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Der Standard 🇦🇹AT · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Actor named NATO is named as acting; it 'foiled' the manoeuvre ×1Actor named dead uncounted The US is named as the attacker and stated flat, but the dead schoolchildren are neither counted nor named ×1Actors left unnamed the three requesting states are counted, never named ×1Aim attributed and quoted the stated aim is in quotation marks and marked as the service's account ×1 from 7330 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Die Presse
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Die Presse 🇦🇹AT · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Who is named as acting Calls the party right and its people the far right in the outlet's own voice; three reports use only its name. ×1 from 70 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Observador
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Observador 🇵🇹PT · digital · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Accusation attributed The fuel retailers' charge is attributed, 'accuses'. No government response is carried. ×1Affected person unnamed the woman is not named, and no cause of the eviction is given ×1Analyst verdict as headline one commentator's judgement on European mood is the headline ×1Asserted or attributed the charge against two foreign states is carried as the prime minister's view, not the report's ×1 from 9741 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Il Giornale
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Il Giornale 🇮🇹IT · 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 → Euractiv
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Euractiv 🇧🇪BE · digital · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Measure chosen the only report we hold that breaks the result down by voters' age ×1Measure chosen the only report we hold that publishes how the age groups split ×1Which figure is used about 80,000 stated flat and unsourced — an order of magnitude above every other figure we hold ×1Which figure is used Puts 80,000 across the border in two days with no source for the figure and nobody attributed for it. ×1 from 41 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Telex
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Telex 🇭🇺HU · digital · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Actor framed as giving The headline makes the government the actor, and what it does is support drivers. ×1Actor named NATO is named as acting; it 'chased them off' ×1Adopted term Uses the government's own phrase 'targeted support' without quotation marks ×1Asserted vs attributed 'under cover of night' attributed to Mária Schmidt, with the ministry's 8pm set beside it ×1 from 3231 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Welt
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Welt 🇩🇪DE · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Actor named The protests named as the cause of both the arrests and the injuries ×1Actor unnamed The party figure calling for a confidence vote is given only by title. ×1Age band without a share the winner's strength among the youngest voters is claimed with no percentage ×1Asserted flat The 'existential crisis' is stated as fact, not attributed to anyone. ×1 from 7442 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Le Monde
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Le Monde 🇫🇷FR · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Anyone hurt named or counted the only death toll we hold; a round number, hedged, nobody named ×1Anyone hurt named or counted the only report we hold that gives a death toll; it counts, does not name ×1Who says the label flat in the headline, no source, no hedge ×1 from 42 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Frankfurter Allgemeine
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Frankfurter Allgemeine 🇩🇪DE · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Actor label The Houthis are called a militia and are cast only as the threat ships need protecting from. ×1With no actor named critics 'After criticism', with no one named as the critic. ×1Anyone hurt counted gives an injury figure, attributed to the ministry, but does not say who was hurt or by whom ×1Asserted flat the report judges the offer vague in its own voice, unattributed ×1 from 8701 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → El País
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El País 🇪🇸ES · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Figure chosen more than 70,000 crossed, the higher figure not mentioned ×1Word for the event invasion, in quote marks and put in a party leader's mouth ×1Word for the event, attributed same word, but in quotation marks and inside a politician's accusation ×1 from 144 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → la Repubblica
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la Repubblica 🇮🇹IT · 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 → Magyar Nemzet
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Magyar Nemzet 🇭🇺HU · newspaper · party-aligned No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Accusers named as participants The headline names two current accusers as having taken part in the concession. ×1Aside aimed at one figure the handover is framed as reading homework for the opposition leader who asked for it ×1Asserted, not attributed The motive is stated in the report's own voice, hedged only by a rhetorical formula rather than by a source. ×1Asserted not attributed a contested motive is the entire lede, with no source for it ×1 from 2932 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Le Figaro
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Le Figaro 🇫🇷FR · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Asserted, not attributed the capture of the strait and a "lightning offensive" are stated flat, with no source and no date ×1Asserted vs attributed The mayor's account and his opponents' charge are both attributed. ×1Asserted vs attributed The capture of the strait is stated flat, as settled background to a different story, with no source and no date for the claim. ×1Attacker identified by nationality in the headline ×1 from 7685 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Politico Europe
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Politico Europe 🇧🇪BE · digital · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Actor named vaguely The opponents are 'other capitals', with no country named ×1With no actor named accusation The coup accusation is in the passive; the accuser is not named ×1Asserted vs attributed The contradiction is stated as fact by the report, sourced only to unspecified official notes ×1Asserted vs attributed the stall stated flat in the headline, with Athens named as the actor that rejected ×1 from 1192 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Süddeutsche Zeitung
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Süddeutsche Zeitung 🇩🇪DE · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Hedged or stated states flat that police do not know whether the person seen is the man they want ×1Suspect identified how age and home town only, and the sabotage is what police attribute, not what the report asserts ×1 from 257 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → HotNews.ro
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HotNews.ro 🇷🇴RO · digital · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Accusation unanswered AUR's claim of a plan agreed between the president and PSD runs in the headline and lede. No reply from the president is carried. ×1Actor named Names the blocs that refuse any exemption ×1Anonymous sourcing The jamming device found in his car rests on unnamed judicial sources, relayed through a news agency. ×1Asserted not attributed the outcome is declared settled before voting opens ×1 from 4469 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → iDNES.cz / MF DNES
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iDNES.cz / MF DNES 🇨🇿CZ · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Asserted vs attributed The cause and the forecast are both attributed to the bank's own statement ×1Asserted vs attributed The headline attributes the charge that Putin ordered the rules of war dropped to Zelensky ×1Attributed The facts are attributed to the Polish army in the lead sentence ×1Attributed the bridge damage is sourced to Kyiv's mayor on Telegram ×1 from 4739 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → NOS
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NOS 🇳🇱NL · public broadcaster · public-service No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Actor label The backers are labelled politically; the opponents, all other major parties, get no label ×1Actor named Names the Supreme Court as the court that withdrew the warrant. ×1Actor named and attributed Construction workers are named as having damaged a cable by accident, and the report attributes this to the aviation regulator. ×1Actor named, in passive Israeli airstrikes are named as what destroyed the building, but the sentence puts the building first ×1 from 2340 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Svenska Dagbladet
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Svenska Dagbladet 🇸🇪SE · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Attributed context The Iran link is hedged and credited to another newspaper ×1Hedged context Base's use for strikes on Iran is hedged and attributed to another paper ×1Hedged or flat a directional claim about the race stated flat, with no poll figure behind it ×1Loss stated flat, size not given a large loss asserted with no figure, and a coalition demand named in the same line ×1 from 3297 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
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