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Newsmax

80 audits on the record

Every sentence below was reproduced from a frozen snapshot of this masthead’s own page, at the character offset the audit records. This is what the desk has quoted from Newsmax — not a verdict on it.

These numbers are not a fault score. A hard contradiction means two accounts cannot both be true; it does not say which one is wrong, and this desk does not decide. A masthead appears in these counts because it covered a contested story, which is usually a sign it was doing its job. Outlets that publish more, and get read more, appear more. Read the counts as exposure, not as error.

80audits citing this outlet
3carried a hard contradiction
22carried a framing split
54spans quoted

Quoted from this masthead

“President Donald Trump's approval rating has ticked up slightly after reaching a record low last month, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll released weeks before the midterm elections.”
September 18, 2026 · see it in context →
“Thirty-five percent of Americans approved of Trump's job performance, up from 33% in a late August poll that marked his lowest rating of either of his terms.”
September 18, 2026 · see it in context →
“with some drawing comparisons to Barack Obama's insurgent 2008 campaign that launched him to the White House.”
September 18, 2026 · see it in context →
“Pentagon Seeks Fittest Troops for Hegseth Speech”
September 16, 2026 · see it in context →
“The Pentagon is asking commanders to nominate physically fit, top-performing troops for War Secretary Pete Hegseth's Sept. 30 address - along with strict grooming standards.”
September 16, 2026 · see it in context →
“The weapons would be purchased through Foreign Military Financing, a program under which the U.S. provides funding that Israel uses to buy American military equipment.”
September 15, 2026 · see it in context →
“The letter also alleges employees were given a single training video lasting about an hour and 45 minutes, and a quota of 40 subject reviews per day, or roughly 12 minutes each”
September 15, 2026 · see it in context →
“None of the allegations has been independently verified.”
September 15, 2026 · see it in context →
“The whistleblower is unnamed, and the account is a claim, not an established finding.”
September 15, 2026 · see it in context →
“The SBA also announced the launch of Operation No Doze, which will send final 30-day demand letters to borrowers suspected of PPP and EIDL fraud, starting with about 8,000 in Kansas and Missouri.”
September 15, 2026 · see it in context →
“The SBA said Monday in a news release that the suspended borrowers were connected to an estimated $39 billion in suspected fraudulent activity involving the PPP and COVID Economic Injury Disaster Loan, or EIDL, program.”
September 15, 2026 · see it in context →
“Combined with previously announced suspensions of more than 150,000 borrowers tied to about $10 billion in suspected fraud in five states, the latest action brings the SBA's nationwide total to about $49 billion.”
September 15, 2026 · see it in context →

Audits citing Newsmax

Showing the 40 most recent of 80.

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