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Outlet profile

Le Monde

Often diverges from consensus framing

L
RLeft
23
Avg divergence
4.5%
Breaks first
67
Peak divergence
721
Events covered
1271
Articles ingested
32%
Contrarian rate
The data

Is Le Monde biased?

Divergence tracks Le Monde as left, based on coverage monitored since May 2026. Across 721 scored events (1,271 articles), its coverage diverges from the cross-spectrum consensus at an average of 23 out of 100, below the site-wide average of 27.

Its most common framing is neutral (67% of events, followed by international at 14%). In 32% of the events it covers, Le Monde 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, Le Monde frames stories most like The Telegraph (80%), South China Morning Post (66%) and AP News (66%), 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
Positive8%
Negative28%
Neutral64%
Dominant tone
Neutral
Avg score 1.0i
Framing tendency
Neutral67%
International14%
Critical13%
Pro-action3%
Alarmist2%
Topic focus
Politics45%
Other25%
War15%
Economy7%
Ai4%
Coverage

Top divergent events

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