The Aporia · Michael Workman

Articles

3

2026-09-16 – 2026-10-09

Claims per article

53

158 extracted in total

Hedged claims

9%

corpus average 9%

Typical length

7,946

characters

Writes for ABC News (AU).

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.

Politics

67%

Crime & Law

33%

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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 -0.25 (leans left).

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.

2026-10-01 · ABC News (AU) · Crime & Law

Fake news and deepfakes about flydubai flight spreading online

31 outlets covered this event · leans left

2026-10-09 · ABC News (AU) · Politics

Victorian language charity with $16m kitty has links to white nationalists

no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans strongly left

2026-09-16 · ABC News (AU) · Politics

Foreign YouTuber using AI to promote One Nation to thousands

no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans right

2026-09-16 · ABC News (AU)

Foreign YouTuber using AI to promote One Nation to thousands

🔮 A day after our first attempt to contact him in May, warnings started appearing on some videos which read, "Made with AI. Sounds or visuals were altered or fully generated". assertive

2026-10-01 · ABC News (AU)

Fake news and deepfakes about flydubai flight spreading online

🔮 The source of this post, Jackson Hickle, has a reported history of spreading falsehoods, an act that may be financially incentivised as he's previously admitted to receiving payments from X.com in exchange for highly engaging posts. assertive

2026-10-09 · ABC News (AU)

Victorian language charity with $16m kitty has links to white nationalists

🔮 In a recent anonymous article titled "Australian Remigration — What it would look like, and how it could be achieved tomorrow", TNO called for the "accelerated removal of non-citizens" and for incentivising the permanent "departure" of some Australians who hold dual citizenship. assertive

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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