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How the coverage framed it

The bias spread here is modest (2.0 points), and the three headlines share a broadly factual foundation, differing mainly in emphasis and quotation choices. ABC's headline leads with the company's own admission — "'We screwed up'" — foregrounding corporate accountability and making DoorDash's contrition the central message. NBC's phrasing, "reaches settlement," is the most neutral, treating the outcome as a straightforward legal development without assigning blame or tone. Fox News occupies the most distinctive rhetorical position, though not in a conventionally right-leaning direction: by quoting Mayor Mamdani's phrase "greedy algorithm" and using the verb "slasts," it frames DoorDash as a corporate villain through the lens of a progressive politician's language — a framing that scores as outlying less because of ideological lean and more because of its charged, adversarial vocabulary compared to the other two outlets' more measured constructions.