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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of this story was largely uniform across outlets, with a bias spread of just 0.5 points. All three headlines presented the crossing as a factual event using neutral, descriptive language. The shared baseline framing described thousands of migrants entering Ceuta from Morocco without inflammatory or politically loaded terms. The only modest departure was Al Jazeera's use of "raises alarm," which the scorers flagged as introducing mild crisis framing compared to the more plainly descriptive phrasing found elsewhere. Reuters grounded its headline in official attribution — "Guardia Civil says" — lending it an institutional, sourced quality, while Sky News opted for the most stripped-back construction: "Thousands of migrants enter Spanish enclave from Morocco." None of the headlines employed charged vocabulary about invasion, surges, or humanitarian crisis, and the overall picture is one of consistent, restrained reporting with only marginal variation in tone.