Deutsche Welle (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 the climate linkAn extreme heat, wildfire weather, drought, extreme rainfall, tropical cyclone or marine heatwave story with no word that warming makes such events worse.50%5 of 10
• 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.10%1 of 10
• 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.10%1 of 10
• Uses figures that misleadA number presented so it misleads: the wrong base, a cherry-picked period, a share passed off as a total, or a figure the article's own source contradicts.10%1 of 10
• Other techniquesWays of misleading the reading found that our list does not name yet. Each one is named in plain words on its article's page.10%1 of 10

Its most framed articles

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

1. 6.0US: Homes burned in California as wildfires rageDeutsche Welle reports the Norte fire in Orange County, the homes it burned, the evacuations and the power cuts, and blames the fire's growth on Santa Ana winds, low humidity and unseasonably high temperatures.
2. 6.0US: California wildfires destroy homes, leave thousands without powerDeutsche Welle reports the Norte fire in Orange County and blames its spread on Santa Ana winds, low humidity and unseasonably high temperatures, but never says that warming makes fire weather like this more frequent and more severe.
3. 6.0At least four people die as floods sweep eastern Spain Deutsche Welle reports four deaths, hundreds of rescues and emergency restrictions from severe flooding in eastern Spain.
4. 6.0Taiwan braces for potential direct hit from El Nino-supercharged Typhoon ChampiDeutsche Welle reports Typhoon Champi's approach to Taiwan accurately on the death, injuries, evacuations and forecasts.