Press TV

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

• 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.73%24 of 33
• Uses a loaded wordA word in the outlet's own voice that carries a verdict the facts in the article do not.52%17 of 33
• 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%9 of 33
• 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.12%4 of 33
• 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.6%2 of 33
• Writes the death outA killing or a death is written in words that hide it: eliminated, neutralised, removed a threat, lost their lives, died for were killed, a toll with no word for killing in it.6%2 of 33
• 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.6%2 of 33
• 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.3%1 of 33
• Labels people on one side's wordIn its own voice the outlet calls people who were killed, detained or attacked terrorists, militants, gunmen or rioters, and its only basis is a party's claim.3%1 of 33
• Makes a false claimA claim of fact that the article's own evidence, a stored source or the documented record contradicts.3%1 of 33
• Smears a named personA grave allegation against a named person or organisation (terrorism, extremism, antisemitism, fraud, violence) with nothing in the article to back it.3%1 of 33

Its most framed articles

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

1. 8.2Iranian intelligence, IRGC forces arrest two over collaboration with foreign spy agenciesPress TV states in its own voice, in the headline and first sentence, that two unnamed people were arrested for spying for foreign agencies, though its own second sentence calls them suspects and the only source is Iran's security forces.
2. 8.2Baghaei exposes German hypocrisy: From cheering Israels ‘dirty work’ against Iran to warning of escalationPress TV reports an Iranian Foreign Ministry post as if its verdict were established fact: the headline says Baghaei "exposes German hypocrisy", and the body writes "illegal US naval blockade", "unprovoked" strikes and "Western double standards" in the outlet's own voice rather than as Tehran's case.
3. 7.3Iran’s Baghaei exposes US hypocrisy as Rubio forgets Trump’s ‘pirates’ boast over ship seizuresPress TV reports a post on X in which Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei sets Marco Rubio's piracy accusation against Donald Trump's own 'like pirates' remarks.
4. 7.3Iran, Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia hold security meeting in TehranPress TV reports the four-way security meeting in Tehran accurately on who attended and what Iran said about nuclear talks.