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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of this story spans roughly 5 points on the bias scale, reflecting genuinely divergent framing choices. At the left-leaning end, NBC characterized demonstrators as "anti-immigrant" and highlighted that the government "condemns" them, framing official disapproval approvingly. BBC similarly used "anti-migrant" and deployed the investigative phrase "who is behind them," language that implies suspicion of the protesters' motives and organization. The center-positioned outlet described events in concrete, factual terms — "masked protesters block traffic" — and quoted the group's own slogan without editorial loading. At the far-right end, the Daily Mail shifted focus entirely to Ceuta, invoking the word "invasion" and phrases like "hell continues," alongside graphic imagery of migrants as the source of social disorder. Where the left-leaning headlines frame the protesters as the problem, the right-leaning headline frames migrants themselves as the threat, illustrating how each outlet's word choices signal whose conduct is implicitly cast as alarming.