21 files on the record. 21 helped Democrats, 0 helped Republicans, 0 helped neither.
Citing two anonymous sources, the Post reported that Defense Secretary Hegseth gave a verbal order to kill everyone aboard a suspected drug boat on Sept. 2, and that a follow-up strike that killed two survivors was carried out to comply.
All three outlets reported that the FBI had warned Rudy Giuliani in 2019 that he was the target of a Russian disinformation operation.
Citing an anonymous source, the Post reported that Trump told a Georgia elections investigator to find the fraud and that she would be a national hero.
An ABC News/Washington Post poll released a week before Election Day showed Biden leading Trump 57 percent to 40 percent among likely Wisconsin voters, a 17-point lead.
In February 2020 The Washington Post said Sen. Tom Cotton was repeating a coronavirus conspiracy theory that had already been debunked, after he raised the possibility that the virus came from a Wuhan lab. Facebook later treated claims that the virus was man-made as removable misinformation.
In late January 2020, prominent headlines told Americans the flu was a bigger worry than the new coronavirus.
Coverage of the Lincoln Memorial encounter with Covington Catholic students described Native American activist Nathan Phillips as having fought in the Vietnam War.
Based on a short viral clip, national outlets portrayed a group of Covington Catholic High School students, especially junior Nick Sandmann, as having surrounded, taunted and blocked a Native American elder, Nathan Phillips, near the Lincoln Memorial.
Coverage of the Nunes memo largely cast it as a misleading dud that failed to show problems with the FBI's Carter Page surveillance, while the Democratic rebuttal memo said the FBI had not omitted material facts.
Washington Post reporter Dave Weigel tweeted a photo of the Pensacola rally venue that suggested the arena was largely empty for Trump's speech.
After Trump tweeted asking whether Russia, the FBI or the Democrats had paid for the Steele dossier, a CNN analysis by Chris Cillizza described the tweet as a conspiracy theory; CNN's feed carried it under the short headline "President floats conspiracy theories". Five days later the Washington Post reported that the Clinton campaign and the DNC had funded, through a law firm, the research that produced the dossier.
The day after Comey's firing, multiple outlets reported, citing congressional and other officials, that Comey had asked Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein for a significant increase in resources for the Russia investigation shortly before Trump fired him.
A widely shared Washington Post piece reported that the State Department's entire senior management team had suddenly resigned in Trump's first week, which many outlets framed as a protest exodus.
Citing unnamed U.S. officials, The Washington Post reported that code tied to a Russian hacking operation had been found inside a Vermont utility, which it said showed that Russian hackers had penetrated the U.S. electricity grid.
The Post reported that a Russian propaganda campaign helped spread fake news during the 2016 election, relying in part on an anonymous group, PropOrNot, which listed 200+ sites as propaganda outlets or echoes.
The day after the election, national outlets reported a University of Louisiana at Lafayette student's account that two men, one in a white Trump hat, beat her, robbed her and pulled off her hijab.
Two weeks before the 2016 election, a Washington Post analysis headline declared that Donald Trump's chances of winning were approaching zero.
Yahoo News reported that U.S. intelligence officials were probing whether Trump adviser Carter Page had opened private channels with senior Kremlin officials, including talk of lifting sanctions. In April 2017 the Washington Post reported the FBI had obtained a FISA warrant on the basis that Page was acting as an agent of Russia, and he was widely portrayed as a suspected Russian agent.
Then-Washington Post reporter Abby Phillip tweeted a photo describing a big, boisterous crowd at a Clinton rally in Omaha with Warren Buffett. Conservative sites said the photo's angle exaggerated the turnout, posting other images that seemed to show a smaller crowd.
On the night of Trump's July 21, 2016 acceptance speech and the morning after, several major outlets used "dark" in their headlines or framing. Critics such as Legal Insurrection said the shared word showed media groupthink that echoed Clinton campaign talking points.
A Washington Post-University of Maryland poll showed Democrat Anthony Brown leading Republican Larry Hogan 47% to 38% among likely voters in the Maryland governor's race.
