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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of this story was largely uniform, with a bias spread of just 0.5 points across all outlets. The Economist, CNBC, and NeutralNews all employed straightforward financial and analytical framing — describing market movements ("Alphabet Shares Tumble"), competitive dynamics ("boosting Meta's ad business while hurting Google search"), and sectoral change ("disrupting the art of campaigning") without partisan coloring. The modest outlier was Axios, whose headline "OpenAI's post-election power play" introduced slightly more charged language: scorers flagged "power play" as lending a political-actor framing to OpenAI that the other outlets avoided entirely. Even so, this represents a minimal tonal departure rather than a substantive ideological divide. The dominant shared frame across outlets treated AI's impact as a business and market story, focused on winners, losers, and institutional disruption rather than on political or cultural conflict.