Daily Overview
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25 outlets · 2,358 articles scored · April 13, 2026
2,358 scored
Amar Desh — no data
Outlets — opposition-aligned
10
lean < −0.10 today
Outlets — centrist
9
lean −0.10 to +0.10
Outlets — pro-BNP govt
5
lean > +0.10 today
Avg credibility
88.1
/ 100 · Bayesian posterior
Articles scored
2,358
24/25 outlets · via Google News
Political lean axis — how to read
Post-August 2024 calibration · BNP in power · Jamaat + NCP in opposition
−1.0 · Strongly opposition-aligned
(Jamaat / NCP / residual AL framing)
0 · Centrist /
Independent
+1.0 · Strongly pro-BNP
ruling government
Context: Aug 5 2024: Hasina's Awami League ousted — Yunus-led interim government took over. Feb 12 2026: BNP won a landslide election (209 seats, two-thirds majority). Feb 17 2026: Tarique Rahman sworn in as Prime Minister. Jamaat-e-Islami (68 seats) and NCP (6 seats, Jamaat-led alliance) are the main parliamentary opposition. Awami League was banned from the election. This axis captures current editorial alignment — not a Western left/right scale.
All 25 outlets — today's lean · 30-day sparkline · key scores
Sorted opposition → centrist → pro-BNP · click row to view 30-day trend
Outlet Ownership group Lean today 30-day sparkline Credibility EPI Confidence Alignment
Platform avg lean — 30 days
All 24 outlets scored today
Platform avg credibility — 30 days
Full political spectrum — today's scores
Opposition (left) → centrist → pro-BNP govt (right) · dot = today's mean · bar = 95% CI
Wide confidence intervals indicate fewer articles processed for that outlet (relying more on expert prior). Narrow intervals indicate strong article-level signal. Amar Desh has no automated data today — add manually via Data Input.
Today's politically significant articles — by alignment
Highest lean-signal articles from 2,358 scored today · click to visit outlet
15
Confirmed false
8
Misleading / partial
12
Verified accurate
35
Total fact-checked
Incidents by type (30 days)
Most flagged outlets (30 days)
Verified content log
Incidents identified · type · severity · source
All ownership information is verified against Wikipedia, official corporate registrations, and established journalism sources. Political affiliations reflect documented editorial positions, not necessarily formal party membership. Last verified: April 2026.
Corporate ownership groups
Bashundhara  East-West Media Group — owns Kaler Kantho, BD Pratidin, Daily Sun, Banglanews24. Chairman: Ahmed Akbar Sobhan. Historically pro-AL via advertising dependence; repositioning post-Aug 2024.
Diganta/Jamaat  Diganta Media Corporation — Naya Diganta + Diganta TV. Founded by Mir Quasem Ali (executed 2016 for 1971 war crimes). Currently managed by Shibbir Mahmud. Jamaat-e-Islami aligned.
Transcom  Transcom Group — Daily Star + Prothom Alo. Owner: Latifur Rahman family. Genuinely independent; both papers faced AL government advertising boycotts and legal pressure.
Jamuna  Jamuna Group — Jugantor + Jamuna TV. Founded by Nurul Islam Babul (d.2020). Publisher: Salma Islam (MP, Jatiya Party). Not formally party-aligned; commercially independent.
Ha-Meem  Ha-Meem Group — Samakal. Owner: A.K. Azad. Supported quota reform movement; mildly reform-oriented editorial line.
Ind./Anti-AL  Amar Desh — owned by Mahmudur Rahman personally (not a corporation, not BNP-affiliated). He explicitly stated the paper has no party affiliation. Historically anti-AL; critical of Indian influence.
IFCN Fact-checkers  Rumor Scanner, Dismislab, AFP Bangladesh — IFCN-certified independent fact-checking organisations. Lean score fixed at 0.00.
Ownership breakdown by outlet count
Full outlet ownership registry — verified April 2026
OutletOwner / GroupFoundedPolitical alignment (documented)Source
📐 Political Lean Scoring
Each article is scored using real sentiment analysis — not just keyword counting. The system reads whether the article is praising or criticising the government. It uses 80+ politically valenced phrases in Bengali and English, detects grammatical negation to flip signals when appropriate, and gives extra weight to article headlines (which carry stronger editorial intent). Scores from all articles that day are combined using a Bayesian precision-weighted average, then refined over time via a Kalman filter that tracks how each outlet's editorial position evolves. The expert prior — calibrated by a human researcher — seeds the model but real daily articles progressively update it.
🔍 Moral Foundations Analysis (MAC)
The scoring uses Moral Action Coding (Hopp et al. 2021): eight moral domains — Deference to authority, Fairness, Group loyalty, Property, Islamic obligation, Heroism, Reciprocity, Family — are scored from article text and projected onto the political axis. In the Bangladeshi context, deference framing and group solidarity tend to correlate with pro-government content; fairness and rights-violation language tends to correlate with opposition framing.
📊 Credibility Score
Each outlet receives a credibility score from 0 to 100. It is updated daily by two signals: the volume of AI-generated or manipulated content detected in the outlet's articles (which lowers the score), and verified verdicts from three independent IFCN-certified fact-checkers (which raise or lower it depending on what they find). Recent verdicts carry more weight than old ones — the system "forgets" slowly over 90 days, so outlets can recover credibility if they improve.
⚗️ EPI — Epistemic Pollution Index
The EPI measures how much of an outlet's content appears to be AI-generated, templated, or epistemically manipulative. It detects repetitive sentence structures, low lexical diversity, and explicit AI self-identification signals in both Bengali and English. Higher EPI means more suspected synthetic or coordinated content.
📐 Confidence Bands
Every lean score comes with a 95% confidence interval shown as a horizontal range bar. A wide band means fewer real articles were processed that day — the score leans more on the expert prior. A narrow band means many real articles were scored — high empirical confidence. Outlets marked "Low data" depend more on the prior; add articles via Data Input to improve their accuracy.
Bangladesh Media Watch
The first independent automated platform for daily political lean and credibility tracking across 25 Bangladeshi news outlets — a public interest contribution to media literacy.
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Daniel Khan
Daniel Khan
Researcher · Bangladesh Media Watch
Focus: Media bias, AI disinformation & political communication
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Platform details
Coverage: 25 outlets — 18 Bengali, 5 English, 2 bilingual · 3 IFCN fact-checkers
Update: Daily at 08:00 Bangladesh time (02:00 UTC)
Articles: ~2,400 scored per day via Google News RSS
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Pipeline: Python · Bayesian-Kalman · Sentiment MAC scoring
Purpose: Public interest research · No commercial use · Free access
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