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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of this story was largely uniform across the two outlets that ran it, with a bias spread of just 0.5 points — too narrow to represent a meaningful ideological divide. Both Fox News and Breitbart framed the Department of Justice's enforcement action approvingly, treating it as a straightforwardly positive development without qualification or skepticism. The primary difference was tonal rather than ideological: Fox News leaned into the official operation name, "Operation Ghostbusters," lending the story a colorful, enforcement-heroic quality, while Breitbart opted for the more plainly descriptive label "Ghost Students," which is catchy but comparatively straightforward. Both headlines emphasized the scale and nature of the fraud — "massive" in Fox's case, "Millions in Federal Tuition Loans" in Breitbart's — without challenging or contextualizing the DOJ's framing of events. No left-leaning outlets covered the story in this dataset, so no cross-ideological framing contrast is available.