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Democracy Now! mentioned it first (Oct 27, 2026, 8:51 AM EDT). Least biased outlets followed 29 hours later. No right-leaning outlet mentioned it.
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3 articles mention Mada Masr in the last 7 days (Oct 22 to Oct 28).
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| UPI | Egyptian court orders shutdown of news website, detains its editorUPI An Egyptian court has ordered the shutdown of independent journalism website Mada Masr and arrested its editor. Editor Lina Attalah was fined $53K. | 0.60 | |
| Bloomberg | Egypt Court Orders Closure of Prominent Independent News WebsiteBloomberg A Cairo court ordered the closure of Mada Masr, one of Egypt’s few remaining independent news outlets, and fined its editor-in-chief for operating it without a license. | 0.80 | |
| Democracy Now! | "Dark Day for Journalism": Egypt Shutters Independent News Site Mada Masr, Detains EditorDemocracy Now! A court in Cairo has ordered the closure of the independent Egyptian news site Mada Masr . The court also ordered the site’s editor-in-chief, Lina Attalah, to be detained until she pays a fine of over $50,000. She was convicted on charges of managing an unlicensed website. Mada Masr is “the flagship independent media outlet in Egypt and a pillar of independent media in the region,” says Sharif Abdel Kouddous of Drop Site News , who previously worked at Mada Masr . The independent outlet was founded in 2013 “in the midst of Egypt’s revolution and counterrevolution” and has “managed to survive all of those years in one of the most hostile media environments” in the world. Still, “what happened today is an unprecedented escalation” because Attalah and Mada Masr had never before been referred to trial. Kouddous adds that the attack on Mada Masr comes less than a month after Egyptian authorities arrested an entire newsroom at the independent fact-checking outlet Matsadaash . They remain behind bars. | 0.80● |
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| Democracy Now! | 5.6% | 1 | 18 |
| Bloomberg | 0.3% | 1 | 387 |
| UPI | 0.6% | 1 | 158 |
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-leaning2 of 15 sources
- 0.4%
- Least biased1 of 8 sources
- 0.1%
- Right-leaning0 of 15 sources
- 0.0%
Lean index −5.5: covered more by left-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.
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