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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of this story was largely uniform, with most outlets adopting straightforward wire-style language describing Flávio Bolsonaro's arrival in the United States following Brazil's election. Politico, Reuters, AP, and the Times of London all used neutral verbs like "arrives," "lands," or "will get visas," paired with factual geographic and institutional details and no evaluative framing. The modest variation came from Al Jazeera and Sky News, whose headline language introduced mild negative connotations: Al Jazeera's phrase "vanishing from public view" implied a deliberate or suspicious absence before the departure, while Sky News described Bolsonaro as "fleeing Brazil" — a verb choice that carries stronger implications of flight or evasion compared to the neutral "arrives" or "lands" used elsewhere. With a bias spread of only 0.5 points, these differences are minor and represent word-choice distinctions rather than meaningfully divergent editorial framings of the underlying events.