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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of this cyberattack story was largely uniform across outlets, with a bias spread of just 0.0 points and all headlines clustering near the political center. The shared framing relied on factual, wire-style language: outlets consistently used neutral verbs such as "hit," "reported," and "disabled" to describe the incident without ideological coloring. The modest exception was CNN's headline — "Thousands of refrigerators were hacked across France. How worried should you be?" — which scorers flagged for its consumer-anxiety framing and the phrase "thousands hacked," lending a slightly more alarming tone compared to AP's straightforward "Cyberattacks hit European supermarket chains and disrupt refrigeration systems." NeutralNews added appropriate epistemic caution with phrases like "Reported to Have" and "Unverified Reports," signaling evidentiary uncertainty. Overall, no meaningful left-right divide is present; the primary variation is between plain factual reporting and mild audience-engagement framing.