ABC News (US)

Where the score comes from

Each technique the reading found, as a share of its articles. Tap one to read the passages.

• Leaves out what changes the pictureThe article leaves out a fact about the event it reports, which the outlet had or other outlets reported about the same event, and without it a reader believes something false about that event. Background the article is not about (overall tolls, the wider crisis) is not this technique.67%4 of 6
• Hedges the documented recordThe genocide in Gaza, the ICJ's findings, the ICC's warrants or the illegality of the occupation and the settlements are written as allegation, as disputed, or not at all where the article turns on them. In an opinion piece, a direct denial of the record is a false_claim citing the record, not this technique.33%2 of 6
• Headline goes beyond the articleThe headline states what the body does not support, drops the attribution the body gives, or puts in quotation marks words nobody in the article said.17%1 of 6
• Hides who did itThe actor of a killing or a harm is taken out of the sentence (were killed in a strike, an explosion hit, a building collapsed) when the article itself, the coverage or the record shows who did it.17%1 of 6
• One side gets the spaceOne side's voices fill the article when the story concerns both, and the other side appears only as numbers or not at all.17%1 of 6
• Softens settler violenceSettler attacks are called clashes or tensions, or the part Israeli soldiers played is left out.17%1 of 6
• Uses a loaded wordA word in the outlet's own voice that carries a verdict the facts in the article do not.17%1 of 6

Its most framed articles

From the last 90 days. Open one to read it with every flagged sentence marked.

1. 8.7Masked settlers attack European diplomats in the occupied West BankABC News names masked settlers as the attackers in Taybeh and says the West Bank is occupied.
2. 8.0Photographer attacked by settlers in the West Bank feels insulted by NetanyahuABC News carries an AP report that names Jewish settlers as the attackers of Heidi Levine and Palestinians, places the attack in the occupied West Bank and gives Levine ample space to answer Netanyahu.
3. 7.3Congressional candidate Brad Lander detained by IDF in West BankABC News reports Brad Lander's detention largely through official Israeli statements and campaign posts, and never tells its reader what the volunteers had come to guard against: the settler violence ABC itself reported days earlier during this same olive harvest.
4. 6.0Washington Post journalist attacked in the West Bank, police investigating ABC News names Israeli settlers as the attackers but never says that Palestinian farmers were wounded in the same attack, so a reader takes the journalist as the only person hurt.