CNN

Where the score comes from

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

• 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.44%4 of 9
• Uses a loaded wordA word in the outlet's own voice that carries a verdict the facts in the article do not.44%4 of 9
• 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.33%3 of 9
• Drops what it reported beforeThe outlet or the reporter reported a fact or a description of the same event earlier and now leaves it out or softens it, so a reader of this article believes something the outlet's own reporting contradicts. Not repeating background totals is not this technique.22%2 of 9
• 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.22%2 of 9
• 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.22%2 of 9

Its most framed articles

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

1. 7.3How the US-Iran war upended two critical global trade routesCNN tells the Hormuz shipping crisis as Iran's escalation against an effective US operation.
2. 6.0Two British men charged with helping Iran over Fairford airbase incidentCNN's headline says both men were charged with helping Iran.
3. 3.0Two cargo ships sunk in Strait of Hormuz as Iran ramps up attacks in run-up to midtermsCNN states Iran's motive for the attacks on shipping in its own voice, as a bid to regain leverage over the strait, without attributing it.
4. 3.0‘The world will be amazed:’ Iran’s commanders prepare for further warCNN reports Iranian commanders' threats and preparations for a renewed war, US strike planning, and the fears of Tehran residents, and it names the US and Israel as the side that launched the war and killed civilians, including schoolchildren.