Lauren Frias

Lauren Frias is an associate news editor at Business Insider. She has worked for several local newspapers in her hometown of Chicago, IL, and NewsLocal, a subsidiary of News Corp Australia. Her work has also appeared in publications such as Boston.com and the news section of the Boston Globe. Frias can be reached by email at lfrias@businessinsider.com and on Twitter @laurenfrias_. In her most recent article, she covered campus protests over the last 6 decades that dwarfed the Gaza protests in size and disorder.

Biography:  https://www.businessinsider.com/author/lauren-frias?op=1

58%

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 mixed reputation for journalistic standards. It is advisable to fact-check, scrutinize for bias, and check for conflicts of interest before relying on the author's reporting.

Bias

50%

Examples:

  • Lauren Frias has not shown any clear signs of bias in her reporting.

Conflicts of Interest

50%

Examples:

  • Lauren Frias has not disclosed any potential conflicts of interest in her reporting.

Contradictions

50%

Examples:

  • There are no significant contradictions found in Lauren Frias's articles.

Deceptions

70%

Examples:

  • In one of her articles, Lauren Frias included a statement that may be misleading to readers by comparing the recent spread of student activism to major student movements from the past, while also highlighting that the recent demonstrations are still far from the scale and disorder of those in recent decades.

Recent Articles

Columbia University's Attempt to Shut Down Pro-Palestine Protest Leads to Nationwide Student Uprising, Over 2000 Arrests

Columbia University's Attempt to Shut Down Pro-Palestine Protest Leads to Nationwide Student Uprising, Over 2000 Arrests

Broke On: Wednesday, 08 May 2024 Columbia University's attempt to shut down a student protest against Israel's military campaign in Gaza resulted in over a hundred arrests, sparking a national uprising of students and leading to over two thousand arrests on forty-six campuses.