8 sourcesFirst reported Sun 25 Oct at 09:14, updated 17 h ago
কুড়িগ্রামে বাসের ধাক্কায় প্রাণ গেল শিশুর
bus collision kills child in Kurigram
Neutral summary
A passenger bus collided with a truck on Kenya's main highway between Nairobi and Mombasa on Sunday morning, killing at least 22 people, police said. The crash occurred near Mtito Andei in Makueni County, three weeks after 17 people died in another accident on the same highway. Passengers were reportedly returning from a funeral. Makueni County Commissioner Abdullahi Khalif said the toll could rise. The National Transport and Safety Authority said the stretch is a designated accident black spot and that recommendations had been made to address safety concerns; it suspected improper overtaking. President William Ruto expressed condolences and ordered inspections of public service vehicles. The circumstances remain unclear.
Where accounts differ. The Rio Times and UNB differ from the Toronto Star on the toll, with UNB reporting 24 dead and 24 injured, and The Rio Times reporting 22 after an earlier figure of 20; the Star reports 22 and UNB 24.
Toronto Star
The Rio Times
United News of Bangladesh (UNB)
Written by AI from these outlets' articles: facts they report, claims attributed, numbers checked against the sources. It may still contain errors; read the originals.
Article analysis
Band AStraight reporting
Toronto StarNeutral
Reports the crash plainly in headline and narration, attributing casualty figures to police and officials, with one minor detail sourced only as 'reportedly'.
Seven of the eight outlets that covered this event headlined it neutrally.
Nothing in the headline, sourcing or narration pushes the reader.
1 Straight reporting10 Campaigning
The same event, two framings
The earliest headline of each kind. Marked words are judgements in the headline itself: stated as fact or in quotation marks.
Neutral 7 of 8
22 killed in Kenya bus crash near the site of a previous fatal accident
Associated Press
In quotation marks 1 of 8
'National emergency': 24 dead in Kenya bus crash near site of previous fatal accident
Africanews
How the 2 was worked out
The model answers seven fixed questions from 0 to 3 and cites evidence for each. The score is calculated from the answers in code, so any disagreement points to one question.
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G1
Reporter's own voiceNarration is descriptive throughout.0
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G2
HeadlineReports the event or the speech act; contested claims are attributed.0
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G3
Other side missingEvery party involved responds substantively.0
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G4
Weight of the unanswered allegationNo allegation against an identifiable party.0
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G5
Loaded quotesQuotes are informational.0
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G6
Unattributed claimsOne or two disputable claims are unattributed. Evidence 11
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G7
Missing contextNecessary background is present.0
Evidence
1Unsubstantiated claimReporter voice
The passengers were reportedly returning from a funeral
Minor detail hedged with 'reportedly' but no named source.
Show the calculation
S = G2 + … + G7 = 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 1 + 0 = 1 G1 = 0, below 2: not band D G1 = 0 and S ≤ 1: band A Band A: S = 0 gives 1, S = 1 gives 2. Score 2
Every headline, in order
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Associated Press
US & Canada
First to report
Neutral
22 killed in Kenya bus crash near the site of a previous fatal accident
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Toronto Star
US & Canada
Analysed above
Neutral
Bus crash in Kenya kills 22 near the site of a previous fatal accident
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CTV News
US & Canada
Neutral
Bus crash in Kenya kills 22 near the site of a previous fatal accident
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The Rio Times
Latin America
Neutral
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Desh Rupantor
Bangladesh
Neutral
About this method
Method. Bias types follow the Table of Media Bias Elements and the Media Bias Taxonomy (both CC BY 4.0). The impartiality rules follow the BBC Editorial Guidelines and the Ofcom Broadcasting Code. This analysis was made by claude-opus-5-5 on rubric 1.0.0. The score is calculated from the seven answers, never generated.
What this is not. No outlet gets a standing bias rating, and there is no left/right axis, because that axis does not describe Bangladeshi politics. Each analysis covers one article about one event. Members' analytics count how each outlet's headlines were labelled over a chosen period, with the number of headlines behind every share, and also show the average score of an outlet's scored articles: that average describes those articles (mostly each story's lead), not the outlet, and outlets are never ranked by it or by any share.
Known limits. Headlines are grouped into stories automatically, so an unrelated headline sometimes slips in; it is shown faded rather than hidden. Where outlets carry the same wire copy, the comparison has little to show. Human annotators agree on bias in Bangla news only moderately (κ = 0.574 at best), which limits what any automated score can claim.