Keyword topic
2 articles from 2 news outlets, Oct 1 to Oct 30
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Share of stories per day
The share of each source's stories that mention microplastics, averaged over sources with at least 3 stories that day.
Coverage by source over time
One ridge per source that mentioned microplastics, from the most left-leaning on top: how high it rises each day is the share of that source's stories that mention it.
Source lean:leftcenterright
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Who picked it up when
The Daily Wire mentioned it first (Oct 22, 2026, 3:00 AM EDT). No left-leaning outlet mentioned it. No least biased outlet mentioned it.
One row per source that mentioned microplastics, from the most left-leaning on top: a dot for each article, on a bar for each stretch of its coverage (a pause of more than 24 hours starts a new one). Hover or tap a dot for the headline, click it to read the article.
Source lean:leftcenterright
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Coverage by source
The share of each source's stories that mention microplastics, Oct 1 to Oct 30, from left to right. Sort the table to reorder the bars.
Source lean:leftcenterright
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
| The Free Press | 1.1% | 1 | 94 |
| The Daily Wire | 0.1% | 1 | 979 |
Coverage by lean
The share of stories that mention microplastics, Oct 1 to Oct 30, averaged over the outlets of each political lean with at least 3 stories. The groups differ in size, so a single outlet weighs more in the smaller ones.
- Left-leaning0 of 15 sources
- 0.0%
- Least biased0 of 8 sources
- 0.0%
- Right-leaning2 of 15 sources
- 0.1%
Source leans based on ratings by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Lean index +4.4: covered more by right-leaning outlets
Each outlet at its MBFC bias score, from −10 (far left) to +10 (far right), as high as the share of its stories that mention microplastics. The lean index is the average score of the outlets covering it, weighted by that share.
lean indexour sources' average (+0.4)leftcenterright
Bias scores by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Lean index per day
Related keywords
Keywords that appear in the same articles as microplastics, Oct 1 to Oct 30: the share of its articles that also mention them, with the number of shared articles.
No keyword appears in more than one of its articles.
Example articles
The article that features microplastics most, per source.
- The Free PressThe Sane Person’s Guide to Microplastics
- The Daily WireDitch Microplastics With These Seven MAHA Swaps
All articles
Every article that mentions microplastics, Oct 1 to Oct 30. Relevance says how central it is to the article; ● marks a mention in the title. Combine with another keyword, text or sources.
| Article | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| The Free Press | The Sane Person’s Guide to MicroplasticsPaid postThe Free Press | 0.90● | |
| The Daily Wire | Ditch Microplastics With These Seven MAHA SwapsThe Daily Wire | 0.90● |