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State Department: Cuba Built a Network of American Activist Groups to Turn Against U.S. Policy
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Extra Extra has grouped 6 reports on this story from 6 news outlets across the political spectrum. By political lean, that breaks down as 2 left-leaning, 2 center, and 2 right-leaning sources.
With a coverage-diversity score of 100 out of 100, this is one of the more evenly reported stories in our index right now — left, center, and right outlets are all giving it attention.
On reliability, 5 of the 6 rated outlets carry a high or mostly-factual reliability rating (A or B) and 1 outlet fall into our mixed or lower-reliability tier (C or D). Ratings are drawn from independent assessments and are meant to help you weigh each report, not to tell you which to trust.
This story has been covered over the span of about 4 days, making it a longer-running thread rather than a single news flash.
Below, the same story is laid out side by side as left, center, and right outlets reported it. Read across the columns and watch what changes: the headline emphasis, which facts lead, the adjectives, and what each side leaves out. The story itself rarely changes — the framing almost always does.
Outlets covering this story: Talking Points Memo, Foreign Policy, Defense One, Military.com, National Review, American Greatness.
Left(2)
Talking Points MemoBJul 20, 7:00 PM
The Trump Admin’s Global Campaign Against ‘Radical Left Terrorism’ Is Built on a National Security Memo Without Congressional Approval
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The Conversation. A little-noticed presidential...
Foreign PolicyBJul 20, 9:42 PM
State Department Frames Cuba as Major Threat via Left-Wing Groups
The report comes amid growing U.S. efforts to overturn Cuba’s government.
Center(2)
Defense OneBJul 17, 5:37 PM
The Trump administration’s global campaign against ‘radical left terrorism’ is built on a national security memo
NSPM-7 marks a major conceptual shift in U.S. counterterrorism policy, departing from approaches that primarily targeted foreign threats.
Military.comBJul 20, 1:38 PM
State Department Report: Cuba Foments Far-Left Extremism, Runs Spy Rings in the US
The State Department is publishing the report at a time the administration is ramping up pressure on the Cuba to make economic and political reforms.
Right(2)
National ReviewBJul 20, 10:30 AM
Countering Left-Wing Terrorism
Secretary of State Rubio is right that there is a lack of vigilance when it comes to political violence emanating from the left.
American GreatnessCJul 21, 8:40 AM
State Department: Cuba Built a Network of American Activist Groups to Turn Against U.S. Policy
A new State Department report contends Cuba has spent years quietly building a network of sympathetic American activist groups it can mobilize against U.S. policy, […] Source
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