The Aporia · David Swan

Articles

6

2026-09-28 – 2026-10-05

Claims per article

36

219 extracted in total

Hedged claims

4%

corpus average 9%

Typical length

4,673

characters

Writes for The Sydney Morning Herald.

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.

Technology

50%

Crime & Law

17%

Health

17%

Politics

17%

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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 -0.24 (leans left).

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2026-09-29 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Health

‘We are sorry’: OpenAI apologises for Medicare hack

14 outlets covered this event

2026-10-05 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Technology

‘More arrests are on the table’: Qantas hack gang member nabbed

4 outlets covered this event

2026-09-29 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Technology

‘Too much heat’: How residents beat a $1.2b data centre

3 outlets covered this event · leans left

2026-09-28 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics

Anthropic boss to skip Senate grilling into rogue AI agents

2 outlets covered this event

2026-09-28 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Crime & Law

NGV’s former IT chief accused of $8 million fraud from gallery

2 outlets covered this event

2026-09-30 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Technology

Your next phone could take four years to pay off

no other outlet in the corpus covered this

2026-09-28 · Sydney Morning Herald - Latest News

Anthropic boss to skip Senate grilling into rogue AI agents

🔮 AI giant Anthropic will skip Thursday’s Senate hearing on rogue AI agents but send US and Australian executives to parliament next week. assertive

2026-09-29 · Sydney Morning Herald - Latest News

‘We are sorry’: OpenAI apologises for Medicare hack

🔮 In a blog post on Tuesday, titled “How we will do better for Australia”, the company said an experimental model found a way into Services Australia’s Medicare Statistics Reporting Service in June. assertive

2026-09-29 · Sydney Morning Herald - Latest News

‘Too much heat’: How residents beat a $1.2b data centre

🔮 It told the NSW planning department it would no longer pursue Project Mars, a 90-megawatt facility that would have sat about 20 metres from the nearest home and 160 metres from Lane Cove West Public School. assertive

2026-09-30 · Sydney Morning Herald - Latest News

Your next phone could take four years to pay off

🔮 Vodafone will let customers pay off a new phone over four years, making it the first Australian telco to offer a 48-month device repayment plan as latest models can cost more than $5000. assertive

2026-10-05 · Sydney Morning Herald - Latest News

‘More arrests are on the table’: Qantas hack gang member nabbed

🔮 The FBI declined to comment to Reuters on any arrest abroad, but said it had already worked with partners to arrest multiple subjects and would “spare no resource in bringing each of the responsible individuals to justice”. assertive

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