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Query
Who picked it up when
CBS News mentioned it first (Oct 23, 2026, 7:58 PM EDT). Left-leaning outlets followed 38 hours later. 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.
Source lean:leftcenterright
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Results
2 articles mention kindness in the last 7 days (Oct 20 to Oct 26).
| Article | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| The Guardian | The kindness of strangers: After a tearful breakup dinner, another patron paid our billThe Guardian When I was in an emotionally vulnerable state, that unexpected gesture took the edge off a very sad evening Read more in the kindness of strangers series The breakup came out of the blue. My then girlfriend and I had shared an intense and fast-moving relationship for two years, then one day she ended things over the phone. I’d thought we would spend the rest of our lives together and have children. I was wrong. I was quite upset to have been dumped over the phone, and managed to get her to agree to meet me for dinner a couple of weeks later. At a restaurant, we shared a very tearful and intimate conversation about what we meant to each other. She didn’t reconsider her decision, though – that was it. Continue reading... | 0.50● | |
| CBS News | Woman bullied for posting weight loss video receives flood of support from kind strangersCBS News "The Kindness Mob," a group of half-a-million people, is helping online strangers recover from hate comments. Steve Hartman goes "On the Road" to meet one woman who benefited from the mob's help. | 0.50● |
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Other keywords in the matching articles: the share of them that mention each, with the number of articles.
No other keyword appears in more than one of the matching articles.
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
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| The Guardian | 0.1% | 1 | 710 |
| CBS News | 0.2% | 1 | 486 |
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-leaning1 of 15 sources
- <0.1%
- Least biased0 of 8 sources
- 0.0%
- Right-leaning1 of 15 sources
- <0.1%
Lean index −3.6: 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.
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.