Keyword organization
16 articles from 10 news outlets, Sep 27 to Oct 26
Share of stories per day
The share of each source's stories that mention TikTok, averaged over sources with at least 3 stories that day.
Coverage by source over time
One ridge per source that mentioned TikTok, 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
Breitbart mentioned it first (Sep 28, 2026, 2:12 PM EDT). Left-leaning outlets followed 13 days later, least biased outlets 21 days later.
One row per source that mentioned TikTok, 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 TikTok, Sep 27 to Oct 26, from left to right. Sort the table to reorder the bars.
Source lean:leftcenterright
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
| The New York Times | 0.1% | 1 | 1183 |
| The Guardian | 0.1% | 1 | 941 |
| CNBC | 0.2% | 2 | 941 |
| NPR | 0.5% | 2 | 393 |
| Forbes | 0.3% | 2 | 755 |
| New York Post | <0.1% | 1 | 2319 |
| The Daily Caller | 0.4% | 2 | 496 |
| The Daily Wire | 0.1% | 1 | 842 |
| Fox News | 0.1% | 2 | 2406 |
| Breitbart | 0.1% | 2 | 1819 |
Coverage by lean
The share of stories that mention TikTok, Sep 27 to Oct 26, 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-leaning4 of 15 sources
- 0.1%
- Least biased1 of 8 sources
- <0.1%
- Right-leaning5 of 15 sources
- 0.1%
Source leans based on ratings by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Lean index +1.4: covered about evenly across the spectrum
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 TikTok. 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 TikTok, Sep 27 to Oct 26: the share of its articles that also mention them, with the number of shared articles.
The search icon lists the articles that mention both.
Example articles
The article that features TikTok most, per source.
- The New York TimesA TikTok Tarot Reader Accused Me of Murder. My Reality Unraveled.
- The GuardianUK watchdogs urged to tackle suicide social media content after death of girl, 14
- CNBCTikTok U.S. hunts for multiple gigawatts of computing capacity, sources tell CNBC
- NPRTikTok staff raised child safety alarms. Court records show executives failed to act
- ForbesTikTok Wants Creators To Help Hollywood Decide What Gets Made
- New York PostMeta bans social media TikTok ads across the US
- The Daily CallerAmerica’s Companies Keep Flirting With Security Nightmare That’s ’100 Times’ Worse Than TikTok
- The Daily WireOnly 1 in 3 TikTok Users Think Israel Should Exist, Shock Poll Finds
- Fox NewsFlorida TikTok creator lands in jail after allegedly turning women’s private data into posts
- BreitbartReport: China's ByteDance Is Still Deeply Involved in TikTok
All articles
Every article that mentions TikTok, Sep 27 to Oct 26. Relevance says how central it is to the article; ● marks a mention in the title. Combine with another keyword, text or sources.