👤 Mark Aitken

1 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
1
2026-10-05 – 2026-10-05
Claims per article
16
16 extracted in total
Hedged claims
12%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
2,716
characters
Writes for Daily Mail.
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
100%
Most-tagged topics
1919 MagazineEast KilbrideRetailers Against CrimeSNPScotland

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2026-10-05 · Daily Mail · Crime & Law
Criminal gangs 'are recruiting foot soldiers as young as 11 to go shoplifting'
no other outlet in the corpus covered this

What they said would happen

2026-10-05 · News | Mail Online
Criminal gangs 'are recruiting foot soldiers as young as 11 to go shoplifting'
🔮 There were 48 children caught between April and June this year, suggesting the number could reach 200 by the end of the 2026-27 reporting period. 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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