Keyword topic
14 articles from 7 news outlets, Sep 27 to Oct 26
Share of stories per day
The share of each source's stories that mention fentanyl, averaged over sources with at least 3 stories that day.
Coverage by source over time
One ridge per source that mentioned fentanyl, 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
Fox News mentioned it first (Sep 28, 2026, 10:04 PM EDT). Left-leaning outlets followed 18 days later. No least biased outlet mentioned it.
One row per source that mentioned fentanyl, 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 fentanyl, 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.
| NBC News | 0.1% | 1 | 680 |
| Washington Examiner | 0.2% | 1 | 420 |
| The Washington Times | 0.2% | 1 | 467 |
| Reason | 0.3% | 1 | 305 |
| New York Post | <0.1% | 1 | 2344 |
| Fox News | 0.1% | 3 | 2433 |
| Breitbart | 0.3% | 6 | 1826 |
Coverage by lean
The share of stories that mention fentanyl, 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-leaning1 of 15 sources
- <0.1%
- Least biased0 of 8 sources
- 0.0%
- Right-leaning6 of 15 sources
- 0.1%
Source leans based on ratings by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Lean index +4.7: 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 fentanyl. 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.
2 sources have no MBFC bias score and are not shown.
Lean index per day
Related keywords
Keywords that appear in the same articles as fentanyl, 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 fentanyl most, per source.
- NBC NewsNYC college student dead after being drugged with fentanyl and raped in her dorm room
- Washington ExaminerThe same Chinese laboratories behind fentanyl have a new $100 million product: ‘Wellness’ injections
- The Washington TimesD.C. man indicted on fentanyl charge after death of Virginia man
- ReasonHow Helping Someone Buy Drugs Can Send You to Prison for 20 Years
- New York PostBizarre X-ray scan leads TSA officers to flight passenger’s illegal stash
- Fox News‘Super-drug’ 10 times stronger than fentanyl linked to deaths across multiple states
- BreitbartPolice: Florida Nurse Accused of Stealing Fentanyl from Critically Ill Patient's IV Infusion
All articles
Every article that mentions fentanyl, 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.