Carla Bleiker

Carla Bleiker is a science reporter and channel manager with DW's startpage team. She has covered US politics from Washington DC during the primaries and presidential elections of 2019 and 2020. Born in Germany, she spent several years living in different parts of the US, including Wisconsin, New York City, and Arizona. Carla joined DW as a freelance reporter in 2013 and later became an online reporter at DW's Washington DC bureau.

Biography:  https://www.dw.com/en/carla-bleiker/person-36032967

42%

The overall score is a weighted number that takes into account conflict of interest, bias, deception and other practices that undermines the credibility of the source. It is calculated as:
Analysis.OverallConflictOfInterestScore * 0.3F + Analysis.OverallBiasScore * 0.3F + Analysis.DeceptivenessScore * 0.3F + Analysis.ReadabilityScore * 0.1F

A score that takes into consideration the content for flow, interruptions with ads, and overt search engine optimization techniques that makes the content hard to understand

The Daily's Verdict

This author has a poor reputation for journalistic standards and is not considered a reliable news source.

Bias

10%

Examples:

  • The author uses Hindu mythology to name the two ancient streams of stars discovered by Gaia as Shakti and Shiva, which are associated with a divine couple from Hindu philosophy who Hindus believe united to create the universe.

Conflicts of Interest

0%

Examples:

No current examples available.

Contradictions

85%

Examples:

  • Shakti stars orbit a little further from the Milky Way's center and in more circular orbits than Shiva stars.

Deceptions

100%

Examples:

  • The author claims that Gaia is a living entity that can observe and influence the behavior of stars in our galaxy.

Recent Articles

The Milky Way's Ancient Star Streams: A New Look at Our Galaxy's Formation and Evolution

The Milky Way's Ancient Star Streams: A New Look at Our Galaxy's Formation and Evolution

Broke On: Thursday, 21 March 2024 The Gaia space telescope discovered two ancient streams of stars, Shakti and Shiva, that formed over 12 billion years ago to help form the Milky Way galaxy. These star streams are estimated to include about 10 million suns each and contain stars up to 13 billion years old moving in similar orbits with similar compositions. The discovery provides new insights into how galaxies form and evolve, as well as showing just how much there is still to learn about our own galaxy.