Al Jazeera English

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.27%4 of 15
• States one side's claim as factA party's contested claim is written in the outlet's own voice with no attribution, so the reader takes it as established.20%3 of 15
• Uses a loaded wordA word in the outlet's own voice that carries a verdict the facts in the article do not.20%3 of 15
• Makes a false claimA claim of fact that the article's own evidence, a stored source or the documented record contradicts.7%1 of 15
• 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.7%1 of 15

Its most framed articles

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

1. 8.0Mecca defence alliance members in Tehran to defuse Iran-US, Yemen tensionsAl Jazeera tells its reader that analysts broadly believe the Mecca pact visit will be enough to prevent new US-Iran violence, but every analyst it quotes says the opposite.
2. 3.0US-Iran war, then and now: How the landscape has changed since FebruaryAl Jazeera sets out how the US-Israeli war on Iran has changed since February, and names the actors of the killings it reports.
3. 3.0New electronics reach Iran, but prices soar as gov’t fees, US sanctions hitAl Jazeera reports how sanctions, the US naval blockade, the war and Iranian government fees have made imported electronics, especially phones, harder and dearer for Iranians to buy.
4. 3.0Iran says won’t allow US warships to get close as Trump ponders new attacksAl Jazeera reports Iranian military threats against US warships, Trump's talk of renewed strikes, attacks on shipping, the Istanbul meeting and Iranian press reaction.