Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty
(“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is
not a fault: it is often careful sourcing.
How these are measured.
3 scored articles;
a leaning average needs at least 8 before it says more
about the writer than about which stories they happened to be assigned.
Their outlet averages -0.24
(leans left).
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Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
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Forward-looking sentences extracted from their articles, oldest first.
Nothing here checks whether any of it turned out to be right.
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