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How the media write about politics · over the last 2 days

For every outlet that writes about politics, a language model rates the tone of its articles as positive, neutral or negative. That gives a tone index from 0 to 100, where 50 is balanced. At the top are the outlets that frame the news most positively, at the bottom the most negatively.

#OutletTone index
1scmp.comArticles 45 · Pos / Neg 27% / 16%63Positive
2thehindu.comArticles 60 · Pos / Neg 33% / 55%38Negative
3dowjones.comArticles 57 · Pos / Neg 19% / 40%32Negative
4thehill.comArticles 51 · Pos / Neg 20% / 45%30Negative
5washingtonpost.comArticles 56 · Pos / Neg 13% / 46%21Strongly negative
6bbc.co.ukArticles 75 · Pos / Neg 15% / 61%19Strongly negative
7theguardian.comArticles 69 · Pos / Neg 15% / 64%19Strongly negative
8abc.net.auArticles 52 · Pos / Neg 12% / 73%14Strongly negative
9nytimes.comArticles 102 · Pos / Neg 8% / 57%12Strongly negative
10reason.comArticles 57 · Pos / Neg 4% / 58%6Strongly negative

Showing outlets with ≥45 rated articles. 10 of 42 ranked. How it is calculated →

This is the tone of the articles as a model reads them, not a rating of an outlet's quality, reliability or bias. A high index often only means an outlet writes more about rallies and launches, a low one more about sell-offs, hacks and lawsuits.