The Independent

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

• 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.50%5 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.40%4 of 10
• Uses the occupation's wordsDisputed territory, Judea and Samaria, a neighbourhood for a settlement, evacuated for expelled, a security operation for a raid, in the outlet's own voice.30%3 of 10
• 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.20%2 of 10
• 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.10%1 of 10
• Gives a contested claim the last wordA party's claim ends a passage or the article with nothing against it, when the article itself, the coverage or the record shows it is contested.10%1 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
• 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.10%1 of 10
• 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.10%1 of 10
• Uses a loaded wordA word in the outlet's own voice that carries a verdict the facts in the article do not.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. 8.2Israeli army ordered to brace for West Bank closure after double shooting The Independent reports Netanyahu's closure order and the killing of two men near Hebron, and names Israeli soldiers as the ones who shot them.
2. 7.3Israel imposes closures across a West Bank city after attacks, and other Mideast newsThe Independent reports Israel's closure of Hebron and the removal of residents from their homes, but calls the removals "evacuations" in its own voice and never says the West Bank is occupied.
3. 6.0Israel orders army to prepare for full closure of West Bank after attackThe Independent reports Israel's order to seal off Hebron and prepare a full closure of the West Bank.
4. 6.0Netanyahu says Israel will demolish homes after 'soldiers killed in West Bank attack'The Independent attributes most claims about the shooting to the army and Netanyahu, and reports Reuters' account of the demolitions and residents' denials.