Media Lens · By Meypporul
Know whatyou're reading.
Media Lens is Meypporul's own bias checker. It places every article on a story by how it frames the news and how far it strays from the record, so you can see the slant before you take it in.
Deviation from the record ↓
Left · holds up
Leans left in what it stresses. The facts it gives check out.
Right · holds up
Leans right in what it stresses. The facts it gives check out.
Left · strays
Leans left, and a quarter or more of its claims don't hold.
Right · strays
Leans right, and a quarter or more of its claims don't hold.
This week's reading
Published 20 Oct 2026
Coverage of the new state data-protection rules
Nine outlets, each rated from left to right with a method we publish in full.
Left · Morning Ledger
“A privacy win for citizens”
Centre · Harbour Times
“Rules notified; key clauses still unclear”
Right · Northstar News
“New compliance burden for startups”
Blindspot · RightRight-leaning outlets ran two of the nine stories, both about the cost to business. Few covered what changes for users.
How it reads
an article.
01
Gather
Every outlet's story on the same event, collected the day it runs.
02
Frame
Word choice, who gets quoted and what gets left out, scored from left to right on a published rubric.
03
Check
Each checkable claim is traced to the document, dataset or statement it rests on.
04
Place
Framing on one axis, deviation from the record on the other. Gaps in coverage are flagged as blindspots.
Free to use.
Open to check.
Free
No account and no paywall. Every rating is open to read.
Open source
The code and the scoring rubric are public. Run them yourself, or fork them.
Method in full
Every rating lists the articles sampled and the rules applied.
Corrections in public
Show us a rating is wrong and we fix it, dated and logged.
Read the
source.
The code, the rubric and every rating are public. Check our work line by line.
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