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Pete Hegsethperson
Confucius Institutesorganization
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How they overlap

Of the articles on each keyword in the last 7 days, with the same text and sources, how many also mention the other. Per lean: the share of its outlets' articles on Pete Hegseth that mention Confucius Institutes.

4.0% of the 50 articles on Pete Hegseth also mention Confucius Institutes, as do 100.0% of the 2 articles on Confucius Institutes.

Left-leaning0 of 10 articles
0.0%
Least biased0 of 18 articles
0.0%
Right-leaning2 of 22 articles
9.1%

Who picked it up when

Newsmax mentioned it first (Oct 23, 2026, 7:22 PM EDT). No left-leaning outlet mentioned it. No least biased outlet mentioned it.

One row per source with a matching article, 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.

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Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.

Results

2 articles mention Pete Hegseth and Confucius Institutes in the last 7 days (Oct 21 to Oct 27).

Articles matching the query
Article
The Washington TimesPentagon calls China's Confucius Institutes a national security threatThe Washington Times

The Pentagon is designating China's Confucius Institutes as threats to U.S. national security for their role in malign activities at American universities, according to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

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NewsmaxPentagon Labels Confucius Institutes Security ThreatNewsmax

The War Department has designated Chinese-funded cultural centers on university campuses known as Confucius Institutes as a threat to U.S. national security, War Secretary Pete Hegseth ​said Friday.

0.60

Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.

Other keywords in the matching articles: the share of them that mention each, with the number of articles. The search icon searches for Pete Hegseth and that keyword instead of Confucius Institutes, keeping the text, sources, source type and time range.

Coverage by source

The share of each source's stories in the last 7 days that match the query, from left to right. Sort the table to reorder the bars.

Source lean:leftcenterright

Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.

Articles mentioning Pete Hegseth and Confucius Institutes, by source, in the last 7 days
The Washington Times0.3%1322
Newsmax0.4%1235

Coverage by lean

The share of stories that match the query, in the last 7 days, 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%

Lean index +7.8: 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 match the query. 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.

Source leans based on ratings by Media Bias/Fact Check.