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The Examiner says the Justice Department wants Trump's press ban "reinstated"; MSNBC, one of the barred outlets, says it "insists" it can ban them
The Justice Department has filed against restoring CNN's, MS NOW's and Politico's access to the White House. We hold three reports on the filing, and each uses a …
Reuters says court pressure pushed an Arab leader out of Israel's election; Arutz Sheva says the case was dropped after he withdrew
On 2 October Israel's Supreme Court let the Joint List, Ra'am and MK Ofer Cassif run for the 26th Knesset. Balad leader Sami Abu Shehadeh quit the race …
Fox News calls them 'refund checks' for Obamacare overcharges; Reuters writes 'rebate' in quotation marks and points to battleground states
The White House is mailing $500 checks tied to Obamacare a month before the midterms, and Fox News says each carries a letter from President Trump. Fox News …
Volodin calls it 'real democracy'; Ziarul de Gardă cites analysts on 18 million added votes; Life.ru counts a record 80 women
Putin attended the first sitting of Russia's ninth State Duma. We hold three reports on it, and each describes the same chamber differently. Only one mentions the dispute …
The Hill says FEMA tied terror grants to five election 'reforms'; the Post names one condition, checking voters' citizenship
A federal judge has barred FEMA from holding back counterterrorism money over election rules. The two reports we hold describe the conditions differently. Neither names the court.
The Nation calls Trump's taxpayer-funded ads 'illegal'; The Atlantic says they break the law's intent but will be hard to stop
The White House is paying for ads with public money weeks before the midterms. Three reports object to it. They split on whether any law actually forbids it, …
The White House calls its taxpayer-paid Trump ads 'public service'; MSNBC calls them 'propaganda'
Four reports say the public is paying for TV spots that promote President Trump, five weeks before the midterms. They disagree on what to call the spots. Only …
The Post says a judge restored CNN's access; MS NOW's headline says the White House 'allows' CNN back; The Hill calls it a 'standoff'
A judge ordered the Trump administration to temporarily lift its ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico, and on Friday the TV networks returned to the White House …
The Hill says CNN, MS NOW and Politico were let back in; The New York Times, five minutes later, says the White House still bars them
Judge Timothy Kelly ordered their press passes restored overnight. By Thursday afternoon the reports we hold disagreed on whether the White House had obeyed. None of them named …
ABC News (Australia) says the White House 'reinstated' CNN, MS NOW and Politico. Its own headline, and every other report, says they were barred
A federal judge ordered the White House to restore the three outlets' access at about 1 a.m. on Thursday. The New York Times, the Guardian, The Independent and …
Jerusalem Post says the committee bars "Arab party Ra'am"; Haaretz says it "moves to bar" and the court may reverse it
Three Israeli outlets carry the same vote a month before the election. They disagree on what the party is called, on whether the decision is final, and none …
Post: 'You shouldn't be covering me.' CNBC: 'You should not be here covering me.'
Three reports put Trump and CNN's Kaitlan Collins on the same pavement outside the UN and publish three different sentences. Of the nine reports we hold on his …
RIA gives United Russia 74.81% in occupied Kherson; The Insider says real turnout was about 20% below the official figure
Russia's state news agency printed the ruling party's results region by region. That included Kherson, where Russia holds only part of the region, and the agency said nothing …
The Washington Post and The Hill say CNN, MS NOW and Politico have sued; The New York Times and Breitbart say the suit is still coming
Three news organisations barred from the White House are taking the administration to court on First Amendment grounds. Four outlets published six reports on Monday and disagreed on …
The Times says the White House removed CNN from the pool; Fox says the networks agreed to walk out
The five TV networks that share footage of President Trump have stopped doing so. The outlets disagree on who acted first, on how long this lasts, and on …
Regnum hails a 'record turnout' in 'Zaporozhye region'; the Guardian calls it a 'tightly controlled vote' and Verstka says 'occupied territories of Ukraine'
Russia held its parliamentary election on 20 September and counted votes in Ukrainian regions its army occupies. The outlets we hold disagree on what to call the vote, …
taz and NOS call it a 'sham election', Welt a 'record result'; the commission's count gives United Russia 355 of 450 seats
Russia's election commission says United Russia won 57.83% of the vote in the Duma election. Two outlets call the vote a sham in their headlines. One calls it …
Kyiv Post says Fedorov blamed Zaluzhny for the dropped election; Censor.NET's headline adds Budanov, its text does not
Former defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov says President Zelensky was ready to hold elections, then backed off because of who would run against him. Two Ukrainian outlets report the …
Duma speaker calls Russia's vote 'competitive' in RIA Novosti; Novaya Gazeta Europe calls it 'a ritual' with a set result
Five RIA Novosti headlines carry Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin calling the campaign competitive. Novaya Gazeta Europe puts "elections" in quotation marks and quotes analysts who say the result …
Waltz says “absolutely within his rights”; MS NOW says “a ban on the free press”
Trump barred CNN, Politico and MS NOW from the White House, and a press badge was taken the next morning. The ten reports we hold split on whether …
UPI says more than 1,000 drones and 2 dead; The Media Line's headline says one Moscow refinery
Nine reports on the last day of Russia's parliamentary vote. One gives a figure for the attack and a figure for the dead. None names anyone killed, on …
Trump calls it "FICTION and LIES"; press groups call the ban a First Amendment violation, as CNN, MS NOW and Politico are turned away
Reporters from three news organisations were refused entry to the White House grounds on Saturday. President Trump had announced the ban the day before. Most accounts rest on …
Vedomosti and Life.ru report 80% online turnout; Novaya Gazeta Europe's guest says the Kremlin will 'draw itself 80% support'
Two Russian outlets give an 80% figure for online voting in the State Duma election. Only Life.ru says what it counts: people registered to vote online, not the …
Russia says its Duma vote was under 'massive attack'; Welt names no attacker, HotNews says Putin blamed Ukraine without evidence
Six reports on Russia's parliamentary election. Two carry an official claim that voting systems were attacked, and neither names an attacker. One says Moldova objects to 15 Russian …
Suspilne asks who Ukraine can prosecute over the Crimea vote; TASS says polling stations were bombed and "there are casualties"
Four reports, one election, four different events. One calls Crimea occupied. Two take their headline from the same Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman. None gives a number for the …
Kan has Eisenkot on 24 and Likud on 20; Channel 14 has Likud first on 30
The Jerusalem Post reports five Israeli polls published in one night. Four put Gadi Eisenkot's Yashar ahead of Likud; the fifth puts Likud nine seats clear of it. …
Arutz Sheva says Eisenkot promised to bring Ra'am into government; Haaretz says four of eight council heads refused to endorse him
Eight northern Bedouin council heads met Gadi Eisenkot on 16 September. The two reports we hold agree on the number and on almost nothing else about the room.
Ynet calls Smotrich's arrest video AI; Jerusalem Post headlines 'arrests'; Arutz Sheva leaves the video out
Religious Zionism says it will join the next coalition only if its judicial plan goes through. Three Israeli reports use three words for the plan. Only two mention …
Vedomosti says almost half of Kherson has already voted early; Ukraine's security service calls the same vote "pseudo-elections"
Three reports, filed within ten minutes of each other on 14 September. One carries a turnout share with nobody named as having counted. Two carry a warning not …
The Independent says Bartiromo was 'fired'; her attorney, in the same report, says she was not
Two reports, three words for one event — fired, firing, ouster — and neither names anyone at Fox News as having decided.
HotNews says the money depends on Congress, Welt says on Trump's own win
Four European reports carry the same American promise — $5,000 to every adult. Two attach different conditions, two attach none, and not one quotes the words Trump used.
Mother Jones says "potentially illegal"; MSNBC asks whether it was legal; The Hill gives the $135,000 and stops
Six reports hold the same disclosure forms. One sizes $45,000 against a salary, one adds it up to $135,000, three raise the law — and none names a …
RTÉ says the Stormont review uncovered nothing. The Irish Times says nothing was sent to it.
The Northern Ireland Assembly's review of Jeffrey Donaldson's conduct ended with a null finding, and the three reports we hold write that null three ways: a search that …
RTÉ says "allegations", Novara says "busted", the Morning Star says "scandal"
Channel 4 News broadcast a half-hour report on Reform UK's donations about 22 hours before Nigel Farage's conference speech, RTÉ says. Six reports we hold word the same …
Witkoff thanks Putin for a three-day truce. Putin says none was agreed — and Espreso counts five air-raid alerts over Kyiv.
Trump's envoys met Putin in the Kremlin on 5 September. Putin said he had ordered the strikes on Kyiv stopped at midnight, and that Russia never agreed to …
Police say 10,000 in Magdeburg, the organisers 20,000, Le Figaro's reporter a few thousand
Saxony-Anhalt votes on Sunday and the AfD is expected to win. Seven reports cover the eve of it. Two counted the democracy rally in Magdeburg and produced three …
Welt counts 1.4 million records in the Berlin leak; FAZ measures the same haul at 5.8 terabytes
The data taken from Berlin's state network went up on the darknet on Friday, about an hour after a ransom deadline ran out and the Senate refused to …
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 …
Euractiv puts 80,000 across the Ceuta border in two days. El Mundo says thousands, ABC says invasion
Six reports describe the same two days at Ceuta's border with Morocco. One gives a figure — Euractiv's 80,000. Two say only thousands, three give nothing, and none …
The BBC says the UN voted to adopt a new world map. Anadolu says it adopted a non-binding resolution promoting one.
The UN General Assembly passed the "Correct the Map" resolution on Friday, 164 to one. The five reports we hold describe what that did in four different ways …
Anadolu says Erdoğan told the UAE that Türkiye is working to end the Iran-US war. Gulf News and Shargh report a call about the region.
Erdoğan and Mohamed bin Zayed spoke by phone on Friday evening. Three reports agree the call happened and disagree on what it was: Türkiye's state agency puts Ankara …
Four outlets, one injunction, two names for the order it blocked
A federal judge in Maryland blocked Trump's new birthright citizenship order on Wednesday. The Washington Examiner headlines it as a ban on "birth tourism" and is the only …
Big Bend: both reports carry the pause, neither reports the other's measure of it
The Hill scopes the pause to two named projects and a date. Axios scopes it to roughly 600 miles and a restraining order, then leads on construction going …
Fox says Bartiromo is out. Her lawyer says she is still employed
Four US outlets, four words for one event: firing, termination, departure, removal. One quotes Fox's release, one quotes the attorney, none carries both — and none has Fox …
Outlets that cover this
Associated Press
Associated Press
🇺🇸US ·
wire · independent
What we have measured
Dating and attribution Dates the signing to Aug. 6, 2026 and writes ord ×1Dating and attribution Carries a dateline correction, repeated three ti ×1How hard the claim is stated Marks "birth tourism" as the administration's ow ×1How hard the claim is stated high ×1
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MSNBC
MSNBC
🇺🇸US ·
TV/radio · independent
What we have measured
Accuser not named The lede does not name the senator making the accusation ×1Actor named for the ban The White House is the subject of both verbs: it blocked journalists, then let CNN back in. ×1A first stated flat a never-before claim carried without a source attached ×1Asserted, not attributed absence of fraud evidence stated as fact ×1
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NPR
Reuters
Reuters
🇺🇸US ·
wire · independent
What we have measured
Actor named The attacker is the subject of an active verb for both the deaths and the damage ×1Actor named No actor named for who cancelled the flights ×1Agreement stated flat, source in a tail attribution moved after the dash ×1Announcement written as settled A social-media post becomes a future indicative: the conversion will happen ×1
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The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal
🇺🇸US ·
newspaper · independent
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T
The Washington Post
Axios
Axios
🇺🇸US ·
digital · independent
What we have measured
How hard the claim is stated Resistance is futile is the report's own ×1How hard the claim is stated "Resistance is futile" is the outlet's own summa ×1Which figure is used counts the meeting by the single member who refused; the statement is derailed ×1Which figure is used Carries the same court order but scopes it to a ×1
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CNN
CNN
🇺🇸US ·
TV/radio · independent
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The Atlantic
The Atlantic
🇺🇸US ·
magazine · independent
What we have measured
Asserted versus attributed xenophobia stated flat and extended to the party ×1Asserted versus attributed judges the cost in its own voice and does not say what the cost was ×1Asserted vs attributed States a broken promise as fact, with no source. ×1Descriptor chosen calls Trump's control a 'takeover', unattributed ×1
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The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph
🇬🇧UK ·
newspaper · independent
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National Post
National Post
🇨🇦CA ·
newspaper · independent
What we have measured
Framing of the sequence Canada's action framed as response, with the US measure named first in law and rate ×1Which figure was chosen gives the Canadian tariffs as 28 billion dollars, the same figure as the U.S. measure they answer ×1Which measure was chosen $28 billion of US imports, the same figure it gives for the American tariffs ×1Who is named as acting Trump named as the actor imposing the tariffs, in an active verb ×1
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The Independent
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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Corriere della Sera
Corriere della Sera
🇮🇹IT ·
newspaper · independent
What we have measured
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Euractiv
Euractiv
🇧🇪BE ·
digital · independent
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
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Frankfurter Allgemeine
Frankfurter Allgemeine
🇩🇪DE ·
newspaper · independent
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
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Le Figaro
Le Figaro
🇫🇷FR ·
newspaper · independent
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
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Rzeczpospolita
Rzeczpospolita
🇵🇱PL ·
newspaper · independent
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
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Süddeutsche Zeitung
Süddeutsche Zeitung
🇩🇪DE ·
newspaper · independent
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
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Anadolu Agency
Anadolu Agency
🇹🇷TR ·
state agency · state-controlled
What we have measured
Actor named Names five governments as the ones that suspended flights, and ties it to US sanctions ×1Asserted vs expected the agenda is given as an expectation, not an outcome ×1Assertion vs attribution Credits the continuing investigation to the FDA by name ×1Attributed or stated the adviser's judgement on rates is stated as sight, not as a claim he made ×1
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Al-Mada
Al-Mada
🇮🇶IQ ·
newspaper · independent
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Al Rai
Al Rai
🇯🇴JO ·
newspaper · state-controlled
What we have measured
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Al-Sabaah
Ammon News
Ammon News
🇯🇴JO ·
digital · independent
What we have measured
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An-Nahar
An-Nahar
🇱🇧LB ·
newspaper · independent
What we have measured
Accused named the accused is named and his age is given ×1Accused named names the accused and gives his age ×1A contested finding relayed with the case still the prime minister's claim carried, with the court proceedings noted in the same sentence ×1Active voice and a toll in the background paragraph, the July strikes get named actors and counted dead — the only counted dead in this story ×1
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LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International)
LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International)
🇱🇧LB ·
TV/radio · independent
What we have measured
Active voice, actor named the Israeli army carried out the detonation ×1Actor framing Tehran calls the meeting. Iraq is the only other state named. ×1Actor left unnamed the strike in Iraqi waters has no one named as firing it — the source is "unknown" ×1Actor named names Israel as the one striking ×1
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Ma'an News Agency
Ma'an News Agency
🇵🇸PS ·
digital · independent
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North Press Agency
North Press Agency
🇸🇾SY ·
wire · independent
What we have measured
Attribution the damage list is carried in full, attributed to the side claiming it ×1Single official source Uses the Saudi Press Agency's account: 'bilateral relations', with no mention of reconstruction or money. ×1What is at stake presents the stakes as trade and energy security; no ship, crew or price is counted ×1Which line is led with led by the legal instrument, naming the Security Council resolution by number ×1
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Palestine TV · Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation
Palestine TV · Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation
🇵🇸PS ·
TV/radio · state-controlled
What we have measured
Asserted versus attributed recognition itself stated as fact ×1Attribution 'historic' attributed to the Palestinian ambassador ×1Dead counted, not named two dead are counted as 'citizens' and none are named; the wounded are not counted ×1Dead named Gives the dead man's full name and age. ×1
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SANA (Syrian Arab News Agency)
SANA (Syrian Arab News Agency)
🇸🇾SY ·
state agency · state-controlled
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Shargh
Shargh
🇮🇷IR ·
newspaper · independent
What we have measured
A count with its base both days given, and the data called preliminary ×1Actor named as a state the attack is Yemen's, not the Houthis' ×1A different actor does the asking Pakistan's army chief, not Beijing, is the one asking Tehran to use its influence, on the word of unnamed Pakistani government sources. ×1'aggression' in the narration The US campaign is called aggression in the report's own narration, which it credits to Al-Ahram's account of the call. ×1
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WAFA · Palestinian News & Information Agency
WAFA · Palestinian News & Information Agency
🇵🇸PS ·
state agency · state-controlled
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Ynet
Ynet
🇮🇱IL ·
digital · independent
What we have measured
A claim in the headline that the other reports very close to deciding the regime appears in one report only ×1Active voice The killers are the subject of the verbs 'beat' and 'burned'. ×1Active voice The killers are named as acting ×1Army's term, attributed the army names the target of its strikes, and no one on the other side is quoted ×1
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