The Aporia · Barry Yeoman

Articles

3

2026-09-24 – 2026-10-26

Claims per article

67

200 extracted in total

Hedged claims

6%

corpus average 9%

Typical length

9,631

characters

Writes for The Guardian.

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%

Economy/Business

33%

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Guardian7-ElevenCircle KAmericansDollar GeneralDollar General’sFTCHouse

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1 scored article; 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 -0.34 (leans left).

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.

2026-10-26 · The Guardian · Politics

FTC and 20 states sue Dollar General, accusing bargain chain of overcharging customers

2 outlets covered this event · leans left

2026-10-03 · The Guardian · Politics

‘It’s enraging’: lawmakers call for action after Guardian investigation into convenience store overcharges

no other outlet in the corpus covered this

2026-09-24 · The Guardian · Economy/Business

Amid soaring living costs, America’s biggest convenience-store chains quietly overcharge consumers

no other outlet in the corpus covered this

2026-09-24 · The Guardian

Amid soaring living costs, America’s biggest convenience-store chains quietly overcharge consumers

🔮 David Friedman, a legal scholar at Oregon’s Willamette University who has written extensively about deceptive pricing in the American marketplace, says major merchants have no excuse for charging customers more than the prices they promise on shelves and gasoline signs, especially given how advanced their inventory management tools have become. assertive

2026-10-03 · The Guardian

‘It’s enraging’: lawmakers call for action after Guardian investigation into convenience store overcharges

🔮 Others include New York’s mayor, Zohran Mamdani; the Texas Democratic US Senate candidate James Talarico; and Rick Fazio, a Republican state legislator who is running for governor in Connecticut. assertive

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👤 Barry Yeoman

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