The Observatory
Three views of the same corpus: the operations as a live map, the outlets that carry them, and the raw numbers underneath both.
The corpus, in numbers
Everything the influence map is drawn from, counted. Scores use the same five bands as every score pill and gauge on the site; FATE dimensions run 0–10.
- Articles analyzed
- 15,647
- Outlets covered
- 160
- Average score
- 45
- Technique instances
- 57,472
Score distribution
How the whole corpus splits across the five manipulation-score bands.
- Clean 6.4%
- Low 30.2%
- Moderate 46.7%
- High 15.9%
- Severe 0.7%
FATE averages
Focus, Authority, Tribe, Emotion — the corpus mean for each. 0–2 is what ordinary journalism scores; 7–10 is reserved for systematic manipulation.
- Focus4.3
- Authority3.5
- Tribe4.5
- Emotion5.1
Article-type split
What the classifier and the escalated analysis passes concluded each article was.
- Influence10,214 · 65.3%
- Standard news3,670 · 23.5%
- Humanitarian1,417 · 9.1%
- Investigative211 · 1.3%
- Opinion135 · 0.9%
Most-recorded techniques
Every detected instance across the corpus, by technique. This is the corpus baseline the outlet profiles index against.
- Loaded Language23,255 · 40.5%
- Exaggeration/Minimisation7,276 · 12.7%
- Appeal to Values5,026 · 8.7%
- Appeal to Fear/Prejudice4,106 · 7.1%
- Appeal to Authority3,568 · 6.2%
- Name Calling/Labeling2,527 · 4.4%
- Obfuscation/Vagueness2,001 · 3.5%
- Flag Waving1,513 · 2.6%
- Causal Oversimplification1,274 · 2.2%
- Guilt by Association1,273 · 2.2%
- Doubt1,025 · 1.8%
- Appeal to Popularity894 · 1.6%
Most-analysed outlets
By volume, not by score — the sources this corpus actually knows well. For the ranking by manipulation score, see outlet profiles.
aljazeera.com1,350 · avg 37
rt.com1,022 · avg 54
middleeasteye.net829 · avg 43
israelnationalnews.com820 · avg 61
nbcnews.com712 · avg 41
ynetnews.com637 · avg 51
breitbart.com577 · avg 58
jpost.com541 · avg 50
smh.com.au492 · avg 39
theglobeandmail.com477 · avg 40
foxnews.com474 · avg 54
dailywire.com465 · avg 60