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Outlet profile

HuffPost

Frequently stakes out contrarian positions

L
RLeft
30
Avg divergence
11.1%
Breaks first
87
Peak divergence
587
Events covered
1031
Articles ingested
55%
Contrarian rate
The data

Is HuffPost biased?

Divergence tracks HuffPost as left, based on coverage monitored since March 2026. Across 587 scored events (1,031 articles), its coverage diverges from the cross-spectrum consensus at an average of 30 out of 100, above the site-wide average of 26.

Its most common framing is critical (53% of events, followed by neutral at 29%). In 55% of the events it covers, HuffPost takes a framing no other outlet in the cluster shares, one of the higher contrarian rates we track. Coverage concentrates on politics and war.

Measured across shared events, HuffPost frames stories most like The Intercept (69%), The Atlantic (67%) and Foreign Policy (60%), and least like Breitbart (13% 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%
Negative57%
Neutral34%
Dominant tone
Negative
Avg score 0.95i
Framing tendency
Critical53%
Neutral29%
Pro-action10%
Alarmist6%
Dismissive2%
Topic focus
Politics83%
War5%
Economy5%
Other5%
Health2%
Coverage

Top divergent events

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