Claims extracted
26
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
4%
1 of 26 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
withheld
no quote in the article backed the model's score
Publisher signals
65/100
Evening Standard's corrections and
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Outlets on this story
10
Crime & Law
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
Political activist Tommy Robinson has told his harassment trial he would “not endanger any innocent family” and that he was “panicked and terrified” after the Daily Mail published a story about him while he was on a family holiday.
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he → tell → holiday
The 43-year-old, who gave his full name to the court as “Stephen Lennon” when he was called to the witness box on Thursday, said he was “shocked and scared” after the newspaper published a story about him while he was in Cyprus in August 2024.
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he → give → August
He said he wanted to track down the journalists who wrote the Mail Online story about him to “question them on camera” but did not want to cause any harm to their families.
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who → say → families
He said: “I wanted the find the journalists,” adding he wanted to “put pressure on them”.
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he → say → them
During his evidence at Southwark Crown Court, Robinson said he became aware of the story, which had the headline “Stoking riots from his sunbed”, after it had gone online and his phone “started going crazy with people messaging me”.
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people → say → me
He told the court he thought it was “totally reasonable … under the circumstances” to post a picture of Mr Dirnhuber outside his home on X, saying he wanted to “put pressure on him”.
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he → tell → him
Asked by defence barrister Alisdair Williamson KC if he wanted to expose Mr Dirnhuber to threats of violence, he said: “Not at all.
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he → ask → violence
I didn’t really think about what he was being exposed to.”
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he → think → what
Robinson said he was trying to get the Mail Online to remove an image of his ex-wife from the story.
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he → say → story
The defendant told the jury he wanted to question the Daily Mail about “the wrongness of what they had done” when he called Mr Young on August 5, in a conversation his alleged victim described as “menacing”.
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victim → tell → conversation
“I just wanted them to acknowledge – is it OK?
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it → want → ?
If I was to do this to you, would that be OK?” he said.
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he → do → you
Robinson said “within hours” of the story going online, people were posting the name of the hotel he was staying at in Cyprus, with those publishing the hotel name “telling people to head there” and that “this is where I am for the foreseeable future”.
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I → say → future
He agreed when Mr Williamson said that in the immediate aftermath of the murders of three girls in Southport he had made a “rather intemperate statement” but subsequently issued “calls for calm”.
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he → agree → calm
Robinson told the jury: “Anyone following what I was saying would have seen I was trying to calm the situation the whole time.”
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I → tell → situation
He said he had tagged Elon Musk in one of his posts on X about the Daily Mail article because there were guidelines against posting addresses on the platform, and he was hoping to get the article removed.
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article → say → platform
Asked about his state of mind, Robinson said: “Panicked, totally panicked.
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Robinson → ask → mind
Panicked and terrified that what was online currently was about to change my wife’s life forever.”
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was → panic → life
Criticising the newspaper’s story, the defendant told the jury: “I would not endanger any innocent family.
“
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I → criticise → family
They could have run the story without giving my location.
“
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They → run → location
They shouldn’t have done that and this is not journalism, this is endangering us.”
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this → do → us
He added: “I would find the men on camera and ask them how was I stoking race riots.
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I → add → riots
“They put the story out there and it’s everywhere and all of a sudden, it’s matter of fact.
“
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it → put → fact
The main question I wanted to ask is: is it OK what you have done?”
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you → want → what
The court previously heard Robinson used “bully-boy, intimidatory tactics” to frighten the journalists with a series of posts and direct messages on social media platform X.
The defendant, who founded the English Defence League, entered not guilty pleas to two charges of harassment causing fear of violence in July last year.
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who → hear → July
The trial continues.
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trial → continue → ?
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