👤 Samantha Cole

4 articles tracked

🤖 AI Analyst Summary

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Written from 4 articles, last analysed 2026-08-31. The text itself is generated again each time this page is opened.

About this journalist

Articles
4
2026-08-24 – 2026-08-31
Claims per article
22
88 extracted in total
Hedged claims
6%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
3,181
characters
Writes for 404 Media.
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.

What they cover

Politics
50%
Crime & Law
25%
Technology
25%
Most-tagged topics
FlockSan DiegoBerkman Klein Center for Internet & SocietyCanadaCanadianChatGPTEmpireGoogle

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
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 -0.15 (centre).

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-08-31 · 404 Media · Politics
Google's Calling Lake Ontario 'Lake America' Now
35 outlets covered this event
2026-08-28 · 404 Media · Technology
The Tragedy and Ecstasy of AI Companions (with Bridget Todd)
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans left
2026-08-26 · 404 Media · Crime & Law
The Man Behind the Anti-Flock Darth Vader Mask Wants to Know: 'When Will This End?'
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans left
2026-08-24 · 404 Media · Politics
'Darth Vader' Wants Flock in San Diego
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans right

What they said would happen

2026-08-26 · 404 Media
The Man Behind the Anti-Flock Darth Vader Mask Wants to Know: 'When Will This End?'
🔮 He cited Supreme Court precedent, like Chatrie v. United States, which challenged the constitutionality of geofence warrants where police could collect location history data from cell phones. assertive
2026-08-28 · 404 Media
The Tragedy and Ecstasy of AI Companions (with Bridget Todd)
🔮 “My use of ChatGPT had gone from just looking up things that my dad's doctor would say, or researching how to get care and how to pay for care – it was a lot of that because I was getting hit with a lot of complex medical jargon that I never heard – to then, I found myself late at night telling ChatGPT, ‘I'm so overwhelmed. assertive
2026-08-31 · 404 Media
Google's Calling Lake Ontario 'Lake America' Now
🔮 It was unclear in the days immediately following the order whether Google would respect the name change. 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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