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April 10, 2026

Mamdani Says He Will Overrule Police Commissioner If Needed

Why Troubling News:

This article really misrepresents what Mayor Mamdani said. He said that he holds the final decision in all matters, not just the police department. He is actively working WITH the police department on finding ways to make reforms while keeping everyone safe. Mamdani will only override the police department if there's a deadline, citing his "responsibility" to keep the city running. The article title makes him sound like he wants to be a dictator, but in reality he just wants to avoid deadlocks.

April 5, 2026

Trump slurs his way through Iran war speech with no clear end in sight

Why Troubling News:

Trump wasn't slurring his speech. Slurring is speaking words indistinctly so that sounds run into one another. Trump misspoke some words, but he wasn't slurring at all in the clip by definition, so this is misinformation through misrepresentation.

April 3, 2026

The Supreme Court Just Condemned Countless Kids to Psychiatric Abuse

Why Troubling News:

This article provides a fundamentally flawed view of the Supreme Court's decision. They act as if every justice is just ok with conversion therapy. The decision doesn't even "end" bans on conversion therapy. The decision sends the case back down to the lower courts. The Supreme Court determined that the wrong level of scrutiny was used by lower courts, making it effectively impossible to rule on the case. The article pressed the panic button without actually considering what the decision means.

March 29, 2026

Why Druski’s ‘conservative white woman’ skit has everyone talking

Why Troubling News:

They bring up the idea that Druski got a cease-and-desist from Erika Kirk by mentioning Twitter users but say it's unsubstantiated. That being said, even mentioning that it's unsubstantiated could still spread the false news that it did happen, even though there hasn't been any direct proof of it.

March 20, 2026

Ranting Republican Demands Iran Pay for Trump’s War on Iran

Why Troubling News:

This article tries to create a consensus amongst Republicans that they want Iran to pay for the war. However, they are using the quotes of one republican. They don't mention Republican opposition to the war until the end. Along with that, they don't mention other Republican ideas about how to pay for the war with Iran.

March 13, 2026

Trump and his allies pitch a new idea: Maybe higher gas prices aren’t ‘bad news’

Why Troubling News:

This article is misleading for a couple reasons. First, it ignores the part of Trump's statement where he says that increased gas prices are only happening because of war with Iran and second, none of his "allies" have made public statements endorsing Trump's truth social post. It attempts to create a consensus while also misrepresenting Trump's statement.

March 6, 2026

Kristi Noem confronts grim truth that everyone is expendable in Trump world

Why Troubling News:

This article is overall extremely biased. It paints former Secretary Noem in an extremely negative light. The two biggest biases shown are that it omits that a lot of Noem's actions were supported by the President and that many DHS secretaries have taken similar actions. It makes unsupported claims about her popularity. Although reliable numbers on the approval of secretaries can be hard to find, the latest one from 2025 showed she had large support amongst Republicans, and although way less popular with Democrats and non-committed voters, still wasn't the least popular. A few tweets isn't evidence.

March 4, 2026

House Democrat who has repeatedly tried to impeach Trump heads to runoff election amid tight primary

Why Troubling News:

From the start, the article frames Representative Al Green as the politician who "repeatedly tried to impeach Trump" which influences the reader's opinion of the politician they are about to read about. Green's involvement in Trump's impeachment is something which could be mentioned later in the article as part of the candidate's background. However, including this in the headline already introduces bias. There is also a literal mistake made in the headline. Wikipedia defines Impeachment as "Impeachment is a process by which a legislative body or other legally constituted tribunal initiates charges against a public official for misconduct." This means that Trump was impeached, he was not removed from office (which would be the result of conviction), but he was impeached. The article portrays Green as failing to impeach the President and that is not what it means to impeach.

February 27, 2026

Video Of Men’s Hockey Team Returning To The U.S. Is So Bad, It’s Almost Hard To Watch

Why Troubling News:

This article is attempting to push a narrative that the team USA men's hockey team got poor reception upon returning home. However, it ignores that after they left the gate they had a large line of fans asking for autographs. It's important to note that security is tight in airport gates. You can't get in without a ticket. Even people who did have a ticket were likely told by security to stay under control. The seemingly mild response in the video is likely due to these regulations. Along with having a larger line of fans outside of the gate, they also have had large fan events in their respective hometowns. Although the article does mention they landed in a city not known for hockey, they failed to mention the individual events that were scheduled for the players.

February 22, 2026

The Nobel laureate who co-wrote ‘Why Nations Fail’ warns US democracy won’t survive unless these two things change

Why Troubling News:

The headline of this article is true, Acemoglu did warn about the survival of US democracy. However, the title is formatted to scare people and already influences readers before they begin. It is valid to experience feelings when reading an article, but it is preferable that those feelings are in reaction to the reader's own mind rather than what the writer is manipulating the reader into feeling.

February 20, 2026

Supreme Court Shoots Down Trump’s Tariffs

Why Troubling News:

Factually speaking this article is fine. However, it provides an oversimplification of the justice's reasoning for ruling against Trump's new tariffs. There's more detail on Kavanaugh's dissent. The description of Kavanaugh's dissent is also an oversimplification and doesn't make sense from a legal standpoint. This article feels like it's trying to push the dissenting narrative instead of properly explaining why 6 justices ruled the way they did.