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New York Times correction over a college basketball player wrongly named at the scene of a shooting leads to $9.25 million jury…
Deterministic text analytics computed across all 5 sources. Frequency, entity overlap, and claim overlap — computed counts only. Nothing is rated true or false.
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Frequency Analytics
The most common words and exact phrases across every report in this cluster. Computed counts only.
Top words
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Top phrases
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Entity Overlap
Names detected in the report text: which appear across multiple sources, and which only one source mentions.
Across multiple sources
- Alabama · 3 sources
- An Alabama · 3 sources
- Kai Spears · 3 sources
- New York Times · 3 sources
- University · 3 sources
- The New York Times · 2 sources
- The Times · 2 sources
- Times · 2 sources
Unique to one source
- We’re · Fortune
- Charlie Stadtlander · Fortune
- Tuscaloosa · Fortune
- Alabama Crimson Tide · CBS News — Top
- Former Alabama · The Guardian — Sport
- Continue · The Guardian — Sport
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Claim Overlap
Near-identical sentences found in two or more reports, versus sentences that appear in only one. Text match only — nothing is rated true or false.
Repeated across sources
No sentence appeared in more than one source.
Appears once
- "“We’re disappointed the jury found The Times liable for an honest mistake,” spokesperson Charlie Stadtlander said in a statement Thursday." · Fortune
- "An Alabama jury on Thursday awarded $9.25 million in damages after finding that The New York Times defamed a college basketball player by incorrectly reporting that he was at the scene of a fatal shooting in Tuscaloosa." · Fortune
- "An Alabama jury awarded $9.25 million in damages after finding that The New York Times defamed a former college basketball player, Kai Spears, of the Alabama Crimson Tide, in a story about a fatal shooting." · CBS News — Top
- "Kai Spears incorrectly linked to death of young mother Times says it had not lost libel case in more than 50 years An Alabama jury has awarded $9.25m in damages after finding that the New York Times defamed a college basketball player by incorrectly reporting that he was at the scene of a fatal shooting." · The Guardian — Sport
- "Kai Spears, who played for the University of Alabama men’s team, sued the Times in 2023 after it published a report, citing a person familiar with the investigation, that said he was a passenger in a car involved in the shooting." · The Guardian — Sport
- "A 2023 article incorrectly reported that a University of Alabama basketball player was at the scene of a deadly shooting." · The New York Times — Business