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The title of the article misrepresents what the article is about. Melania Trump praises Putin for releasing Ukrainian children back to their families. Nowhere in the article does it mention how Trump is humiliated by Putin. It's just the author's opinion. Melania Trump praising Child reunification does not directly link her to sucking up to Putin after he humiliated Trump.

This week, several U.S. news outlets, including Fox News Digital, circulated the misleading claim that the Afghan national accused of ambushing U.S. National Guard members had entered the United States “unvetted.” However, according to verified reporting and documentation reviewed by FactCheck.org, the suspect had undergone multiple layers of vetting, including screenings tied to his prior work with U.S. intelligence forces in Afghanistan and an additional immigration vetting process before entering the country. The repeated suggestion that he arrived without screening misrepresents the actual procedures and falsely implies a breakdown in immigration security protocols.

This week, the White House launched a new “Media Bias” webpage that was found to contain inaccuracies when it incorrectly credited a Fox News reporter with a statement during a press conference. Fox News challenged this claim, prompting the White House to delete the entry and temporarily take the page offline to fix the mistake. Although the site aims to highlight biased or false journalism, it accidentally became an example of misinformation by misidentifying a reporter and publicly accusing their actions of being “biased” without verifying the facts.

This is troubling news for me because of the amount of opinion within the article. It is labeled as opinion, and InfoWars is notorious for publishing articles with a conservative slant, but this article is more concerning than others because of the author citing as much of his own works as he does. He is a prolific writer for InfoWars, and he cites several of his own works near the end. This is all with the end goal of supporting the current battle with the H-1B visas, and claiming that the stance that fights for keeping the current restrictions on them is the correct one.

This article isn't troubling because it covers Trump being sleepy during a conference, but instead because of the reliability bias inside CNN. Whether or not Trump "dozed off" during the conference is irrelevant to this writing, although the two videos used in the clip do not necessarily support this statement. In this case, it is important to consider if Joe Biden, during any of his Presidential moments showing his cognitive decline, was criticized to the same extent. Obviously, from CNN, none of those moments were covered the same way this article covers Trump's demeanor in this conference. Many in the Democratic Party, and in the cabinet during Biden's Presidency, maintained the notion that Biden was not in a state of cognitive decline, even when they swapped his candidacy with Kamala Harris without a primary. This candidate swap proved that Biden was not in a state to run again for President, something the Democrat administration did not admit until the last moment, proving some lying to the public about the President's condition beforehand. While this occurred, none of it was covered by CNN as harshly as this article covers Trump's sleepiness. This is an instance of background bias by the organization, and a mark against its reliability for even coverage across the wide partisan divide in current American politics.

I found this headline troubling as it insinuates that it is leftist thinking which has implanted a sort of "false consciousness" into women, thus making them not desire a family. However, an alternative possibility is that the emphasis on personal choice and freedom to make a choice based on your own desires has allowed for women to express themselves through a more personal lens-- the increase in women not wanting a family is then due to women being able to make more decisions for themselves and based on their own wants, rather than what society wants from them.

This is an article published by reporter Max Burns for The Hill. The article bashes current US President Donald Trump for being "checked out" of his presidential duties. The article is not well supported by quotes, facts, or other forms of evidence to support this claim. Reporter Max Burns thinks that Trump is more focused on his personal ballroom design than on his unfulfilled election campaign promises. Quotes like, "Nearly a year into his second term, the Trump presidency is clearly directionless," and "Trump summed up his apathy last month when he declared that he couldn’t even think of anything else for Congress to do." clearly demonstrate the left-leaning bias in this article.

The article itself doesn't contain any misinformation or fake news, but it calls out Trump for making false claims about immigrants. Trump blamed immigrants for crime, social dysfunction, and economic hardship in a rant but statistics clearly show that immigrants boost the economy and commit crimes at a far lower rate than people born in the US as the article states.

This article utilizs emotionally loaded language that encourages the audiences to interpret the deportation as uniquely tragic or unjust. Phrases such as "her college dream has been shattered" and repeated narrative emphasis on the student's youth and innocence frame the event as a dramatic personal hardship rather than a routine federal enforcement action, This deliberate tonal shaping is a hallmark of political-leaning content and creates an implicit narrative that immigration enforcement is inherently harmful. The word choice reflects a clear advocacy tone that aligns with left-leaning perspectives on immigration policy, A central problem with the article is it selective presentation of legally relevant facts. While referencing a "couter order," the report fails to explain that the TRO originated from a district court without jurisdiction over immigration removel proceedings under the REAL ID Act 2005. It also minimize the determinative facts that the student havd a final removal order issued about a decade earlier by an immigration judge, which is the only valid legal standard governing her deportation in this case. By downplaying the legal framework and emphasizing procedural drama, the article gives readers the false impression that ICE violated a legitimate judicial command, when federal agents were acting squarely within their lawful authority, This omission fits Biasly's definition of Spin through selective fact presentation. Meanwhile, the article relies strongly on the student's attorney, family members, and sympathetic viewpoints, while providing minimal context for ICE's legal obligations or the administrative immigration court system,. This imbalance results in a narrative thet humanizes only one side of the story while reducing ICE's position to short quotes stripped of legal explanation. No immigration law experts or neutral sources are cited to clarify jurisdictional limits, the structure of immigration courts, or the procedural meaning of a final removal order. Such disproportionate sourcing demonstrates a left or lean left bia, as it privileges an emotionally compelling narrative over balanced representations. This article also amplifies bias through sympathy-driven framing, highlighting details such as the student" returning to a country she left at age even" and allegedly being "unaware of the final removal order." While effective as emotioal appeals, these elements haveno legal bearing on the validity of the removal order or the federal government's responsibility to enforce it. Long-term absence from Honduras does not create legal status in the United States, and lack of awareness cannot nullify a legally issued final order. By presenting there points as though they constitude mitigating factors, the article encourages reader to percevie a routine enforcement action as an extraordinary injustice. This constitues emotional spin and aligns with left leaning advocacy framing. Although the artical does not fabracate facts, its omissions ,misframing, and selective presentation compromise reliability, The lack of transparency about juridictional limitations, administrative nature od immigration courts, and the binding effect of a dacade-old removal order results in a publicly misleading understanding of the event. The reliance on emotion appeals, under-explained legal concepts, and incomplete procedural context places the reporting in the mixed realiability catagory, The piece is best described as a politically baised and sympathy-driven framing of a lawful federal deprotation action rather than a neutral news.

This is troubling news for me because of the way the article is formatted. The information may be true, and the graphics correct, but it is the heavy addition of the author's opinion that is worrisome. MS (formerly MSNBC) is known for having a strong left-leaning bias, and this article further proves that point. The way that the author uses the information from the Washington Post report is to prove that he is correct. The language used in the article is also critical of the Republican party, and specifically toward President Trump's association with billionaires. It is not necessarily a misinformant article, but the author's opinion may leave the audience with a skewed perspective.

The Federalist article about First Choice Women’s Resource Centers is misleading not because the basic facts are wrong, but because of how the story is framed. It labels New Jersey’s subpoena as “Democrat lawfare,” suggesting political targeting, even though court records show the subpoena is part of a standard consumer-protection investigation. The article also leaves out important context about why the state began looking into the center in the first place, including concerns that it may have misrepresented its services to clients and donors. By using loaded language and only presenting the center’s viewpoint, the article creates the impression that the investigation is strictly political, which can mislead readers about the real regulatory issues at play.

This article makes troubling claims about the intentions of both Trump and Putin in a future summit in Alaska. From the beginning, the author wrote Trump off as incapable of having a backbone in the presence of Russia's leader, and presumes that Putin will successfully manipulate him. More importantly, the article makes some outlandish claims about support for Ukraine and its sovereignty. I wrote an extensive thesis for my Honors undergraduate degree that dealt with NATO and U.S.-Russia relations, exploring the purpose of NATO and Putin's 'thin red line'. It is not pro-Russia to explain Putin's long-standing opposition to NATO membership and the integrated military structure of NATO on the border of Russia. "Not one inch eastward" is a direct quote attributed to sitting U.S. officials during the unification of Germany, referring to a compromise with Russia about NATO expansion. The compromise allowed Germany to join NATO if the U.S. did not expand the organization eastward, since Russia feared military and intelligence capabilities at its border. The United States would break this promise not ten years later. The author calls the idea of Trump not supporting Ukraine with U.S. taxpayer money as being pro-Russia, which relies heavily on the understanding that the reader is misinformed or lacks a historical perspective on NATO or this conflict. There is even substantial evidence in founding NATO documents that proves one original goal of the organization was to "co-opt and contain Russian power." Regarding Ukrainian sovereignty, the United States enacted a coup in Ukraine in 2014, using various NGOs like the Open Society Foundation and the National Endowment for Democracy, similarly to what occurred in Georgia in 2003, a nation also coincidentally on Russia's border. A nation is not, at least, entirely sovereign if the West can overthrow its democratically elected leaders. Russia's invasion of Ukraine is a travesty, but omitting the extensive research involved in a well-rounded understanding of this conflict is clear bias. Selectively calling certain truths pro-Russia and calling others "sympathetic to Ukraine" demonstrates the source's proclivity for labeling inconvenient information to their narrative.