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Outlet profile

Financial Times

Hews close to consensus framing

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RCenter-right
22
Avg divergence
18.7%
Breaks first
67
Peak divergence
475
Events covered
886
Articles ingested
14%
Contrarian rate
The data

Is Financial Times biased?

Divergence tracks Financial Times as center-right, based on coverage monitored since April 2026. Across 475 scored events (886 articles), its coverage diverges from the cross-spectrum consensus at an average of 22 out of 100, below the site-wide average of 26.

Its most common framing is neutral (84% of events, followed by critical at 11%). In 14% of the events it covers, Financial Times takes a framing no other outlet in the cluster shares. Coverage concentrates on economy and politics.

Measured across shared events, Financial Times frames stories most like AP News (82%), Reuters (78%) and PBS NewsHour (78%), and least like The Intercept (0% agreement).

These numbers are computed, not opinions. They update every 30 minutes as new coverage arrives. How the score, framing labels, and spectrum placement work is documented in the methodology.

Sentiment breakdown i
Positive9%
Negative22%
Neutral69%
Dominant tone
Neutral
Avg score 1.0i
Framing tendency
Neutral84%
Critical11%
Alarmist3%
Pro-action2%
International1%
Topic focus
Economy37%
Politics33%
War11%
Ai10%
Other8%
Coverage

Top divergent events

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