👤 Dakota Smith

2 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
2
2026-09-03 – 2026-09-06
Claims per article
60
120 extracted in total
Hedged claims
11%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
8,688
characters
Writes for Los Angeles Times.
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

Crime & Law
50%
Politics
50%
Most-tagged topics
CaliforniaCaliforniansCongressInstagramSACRAMENTOSan FranciscoSwalwellThe Times

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
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 -0.27 (leans left).

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-09-06 · Los Angeles Times · Crime & Law
Eric Swalwell briefly detained as feds seize his phone at San Francisco airport, source says
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-09-03 · Los Angeles Times · Politics
Reining in Big Tech: How California lawmakers plan to regulate AI and social media
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans left

What they said would happen

2026-09-03 · Los Angeles Times
Reining in Big Tech: How California lawmakers plan to regulate AI and social media
🔮 Measures would bar ‘addictive’ features for users under 16, expose platforms to million‑dollar penalties for harming kids, and require human oversight when AI tools discipline or fire workers. assertive
2026-09-06 · Los Angeles Times
Eric Swalwell briefly detained as feds seize his phone at San Francisco airport, source says
🔮 They sought the devices as part of their inquiry into whether Swalwell violated a federal law that makes it a crime for anyone acting under official government authority to willfully deprive a person of their constitutional rights, according to the court filings. 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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