Keyword topic
12 articles from 8 news outlets, Sep 27 to Oct 26
Share of stories per day
The share of each source's stories that mention defamation, averaged over sources with at least 3 stories that day.
Coverage by source over time
One ridge per source that mentioned defamation, 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 Hill mentioned it first (Oct 5, 2026, 9:59 AM EDT). Left-leaning outlets followed within the hour, right-leaning outlets 4 days later.
One row per source that mentioned defamation, 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 defamation, 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 | 671 |
| The Guardian | 0.1% | 1 | 941 |
| PBS NewsHour | 0.2% | 1 | 559 |
| The Hill | 0.1% | 1 | 1119 |
| The Washington Times | 0.4% | 2 | 449 |
| Reason | 1.0% | 3 | 302 |
| The Wall Street Journal | 0.8% | 1 | 125 |
| Fox News | 0.1% | 2 | 2406 |
Coverage by lean
The share of stories that mention defamation, 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-leaning3 of 15 sources
- <0.1%
- Least biased1 of 8 sources
- <0.1%
- Right-leaning4 of 15 sources
- 0.1%
Source leans based on ratings by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Lean index +2.7: 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 defamation. 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.
1 source has no MBFC bias score and is not shown.
Lean index per day
Related keywords
Keywords that appear in the same articles as defamation, 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 defamation most, per source.
- NBC NewsJudge orders Trump to sit for deposition in his $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC
- The GuardianMariah Carey wins dismissal of brother’s defamation lawsuit over her memoir
- PBS NewsHourSupreme Court rejects Roy Moore's push to restore $8.2 million defamation verdict awarded to him
- The HillSupreme Court won't hear Roy Moore’s appeal over $8.2 million jury verdict in campaign ad dispute
- The Washington TimesJudge orders Trump to sit for deposition in his defamation suit against BBC
- ReasonStatement About Maine Lobster Industry as a Whole Can't Be Actionable Group Defamation
- The Wall Street JournalFormer MIT Scientist Wins Defamation Case Over Sexual-Harassment Accusations
- Fox NewsCBS News faces $20M defamation lawsuit after misidentifying Maryland teenager in Reflecting Pool report
All articles
Every article that mentions defamation, 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.