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.
The Florida GOP’s Red Scare Is Losing Steam
Tennessee’s Governor Loves Dolly—But Not the LGBTQ People She Stood Up For
Canada claps back at Trump's efforts to rename Lake Ontario as 'Lake America'
GOP trailing in 8 battleground Senate races 2 months before Election Day: polling aggregate
Trump indicates support for Christian-backed plan to help Canadian Jews escape antisemitism
James Jordan feels blessed to star in Taylor Sheridan's 'Lioness,' 'Landman'
2 killed, 8 shot at large Trenton, N.J., street gathering
California lawmakers block Gavin Newsom’s push to stop insurers from suing utility companies that cause wildfires
Emergency measures needed to stop teachers quitting, say Lib Dems
An Actual SCOTUS Nightmare
Trump ‘border czar’ denies Milo Yiannopoulos was deported quickly to spare him from ICE detention
The presidential contender successfully trolling Trump’s White House
Burnham says united Ireland poll is 'off the table' during first NI visit
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.