Manipulation techniques in today's news
14 articles, drawn evenly from outlets rated left, center, and right. Each one lists the manipulation techniques our model found — not a judgment of whether it's true.
⚠️ This day is not evenly balanced: left 5, center 5, right 4. We had fewer articles available from right-rated outlets than from the others — usually because their feeds had already rotated the day's stories out by the time we built this page.
The impact of the trade war between the U.S. and Canada
Memes and Machine Guns: How Brandon Herrera Built a Path to Congress
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rejoins DSA after membership lapse of seven years
GOP nominee for Texas House seat apologizes for ‘crude’ online posts
The view from a very angry Canada
Here’s to Dolly: Union Member, Vaccine Hero, Literacy Giant, Staunch Gay Ally
Justice Thomas recalls why he wasn't friends with Alito in law school: 'Clarence, you were scary'
Wes Streeting deluged with homophobic hate mail since becoming defence secretary
Ted Cruz teases possible 2028 clash with JD Vance: ‘I want to be president’
Gavin Newsom claims he ‘didn’t even know’ about 5,000-bottle wine cellar at his $7.5M home
NASA administrator suggests putting data centers in space
Household energy bills to hit three-year high as Ofgem announces 4% rise from October
Hawley rips Flock’s sprawling surveillance web as Texas cities cut cameras over privacy and data fears
How these articles were chosen
- Sources are a fixed, version-controlled list of outlets, not picked per day.
- Equal numbers are taken from left-, center-, and right-rated outlets, using the AllSides media bias ratings — those labels are theirs, not ours.
- Within an outlet we take the most recent articles from its politics or world section feed. No human picks the interesting ones.
- Live blogs, podcasts, video and photo galleries are skipped — they contain too little text to analyze.
The full source list
Ratings below are AllSides' own labels (retrieved 2026-07-31), not ours. We group Left and Lean Left together, and Lean Right and Right together, which balances direction but not intensity — the exact ratings are here so you can judge that yourself.
- Left: The Guardian (US) (Left), NPR (Lean Left), Vox (Left), Mother Jones (Left)
- Center: BBC News (Center), Christian Science Monitor (Center), The Hill (Center), UPI (Center)
- Right: Fox News (Right), New York Post (Right), Washington Examiner (Lean Right), Reason (Lean Right)
Limitations worth knowing
- Semblen detects manipulation techniques, not left/right tilt.
- The model has known false positives on strong-but-legitimate language — particularly military reporting and opinion writing in the author's own voice.
- We list the techniques found. A technique flag is not a claim that an article is false, and we don't rank outlets against each other.
- Articles where the model found nothing are not published — there'd be nothing on the page.
- Each article is analyzed once, at the time shown on its page. Outlets sometimes update articles after publication, so a quoted phrase may no longer appear in the current version.
- Findings may include language an outlet is quoting rather than asserting — a politician's attack line, or an opponent's own words. We flag technique wherever it appears, including inside quotations.
- We link to each original article and quote only short phrases as evidence.