The Aporia · Deborah Cole in Berlin

Articles

3

2026-08-31 – 2026-09-20

Claims per article

24

71 extracted in total

Hedged claims

8%

corpus average 9%

Typical length

4,434

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%

Crime & Law

33%

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AfDBerlinCDUAustrianEuropeanFrenchGermanGermany

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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 -0.26 (leans left).

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.

2026-09-20 · The Guardian · Politics

Friedrich Merz vows to stay in office after CDU ‘disaster’ in German state elections

20 outlets covered this event

2026-09-20 · The Guardian · Politics

Future of German chancellor hangs in the balance as two states go to polls

20 outlets covered this event · leans left

2026-08-31 · The Guardian · Crime & Law

Egyptian queen’s 673-diamond necklace stolen in Vienna smash-and-grab raid

no other outlet in the corpus covered this

2026-09-20 · The Guardian

Future of German chancellor hangs in the balance as two states go to polls

🔮 Coming two weeks after a seismic election in Saxony-Anhalt in which the anti-immigration, pro-Kremlin Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) scored its highest ever result in a regional poll, the nativist party is expected to drain support again from Merz’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU). assertive

2026-09-20 · The Guardian

Friedrich Merz vows to stay in office after CDU ‘disaster’ in German state elections

🔮 But he said he would remain chancellor and party chair and continue a reform drive on fronts including taxes, healthcare, pensions and reducing bureaucracy. assertive

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👤 Deborah Cole in Berlin

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