Times of Israel

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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.56%5 of 9
• Doubts one side's dead and not the other'sPalestinian, Lebanese or Iranian casualty figures are qualified (according to the Hamas-run health ministry, cannot be verified) while Israeli figures are stated as fact.33%3 of 9
• 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.33%3 of 9
• 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.33%3 of 9
• 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.33%3 of 9
• Uses a loaded wordA word in the outlet's own voice that carries a verdict the facts in the article do not.33%3 of 9
• 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.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.11%1 of 9
• 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.11%1 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.11%1 of 9
• 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.11%1 of 9

Its most framed articles

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

1. 9.15 Palestinians said killed in Gaza strikes; IDF targets two Hamas commandersThe Times of Israel hedges the Palestinian dead at every turn, with "said killed", "reportedly", "could not independently verify", "alleged Israeli fire" and "Hamas-run", while it relays the military's claims about the men it killed without any such caveat.
2. 7.3Israel cites merchants angered by Hamas taxes as commercial ...The Times of Israel reports COGAT's halt of commercial goods into Gaza and does carry the Gaza truckers union's denial, but in its own voice it brands Hamas a "terror group" and "terrorists" four times, hedges the Palestinian death toll twice in one sentence while stating Israel's 1,200 figure as plain fact, and never once names the genocide, the UN Commission finding or the ICJ measures that bear on Israel's control of food entering Gaza.
3. 7.3Three reportedly killed in IDF strike targeting Hamas terrorist at Gaza universityThe Times of Israel's headline calls the strike's target a "Hamas terrorist" in its own voice while hedging the three deaths a hospital confirmed.
4. 6.0Hamas said to threaten Oct. 7-style attack over IDF advance in Gaza, PA’s nixed electionThe Times of Israel reports an Israeli memo saying Hamas threatened an October 7-style attack, and it attributes that claim with care.