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 4, right 5. We had fewer articles available from center-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.
'Now and Always:' Premier erects Lake Ontario sign in rebuke to Trump
Abdul El-Sayed peppered with questions on Hasan Piker link, fracture with Jewish Dems at Michigan convention
Judge rules against Trump over deporting students critical of Israel
Wyoming’s Primaries Were a Preview of Trump’s Midterm Interference
Crimes to the Left of me, quiet to the Right
FM calls for referendum powers as draft independence bill published
Far-right media provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos deported by ICE from US to UK
Clean-up of illegal waste supersite costs taxpayers £6m
How do you rebuild trust in the government? One pothole at a time.
Landlord who rented apartment to 9/11 terrorists speaks for 1st time about being duped: ‘I bought into everything’
Lawmakers Want To Stop Kids From Nicknaming Their Pokémon
Why is one WNBA team calling in national security experts?
Dems face uphill battle in challenge to Georgia congressional map under new SCOTUS rules
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.