MS NOW's Soboroff—Haley Stevens 'Racist' for Accusing El-Sayed of Blaming Jews
The article faults the broadcast for not examining El-Sayed’s criticism of AIPAC and his appearances with Hasan Piker.

SOURCE CHECK
TAP FOR WHYNewsbusters is an opinion-oriented outlet, and this article uses strongly evaluative language while presenting a selective critique of a television segment. The author is identified and the segment is transcribed, but the article offers limited independent sourcing or countervailing context.
- Source type — Opinion-first publisher; the piece is an explicitly argumentative media critique.
- Editorial standards — The writing relies on overtly partisan and loaded judgments rather than neutral presentation.
- Author attribution — The article identifies its author.
The article includes a substantial excerpt of the broadcast and identifies the statements it discusses, but its analysis is one-sided and uses inflammatory characterizations. It provides little independent verification or response from the people it criticizes.
HOW WE SCORE ↗The article presents a sustained argument against the broadcast’s treatment of Stevens and gives little space to the reasoning behind Soboroff’s reaction or to responses from the people criticized. Its loaded descriptions further reduce balance.
- Counterarguments presented — The segment’s perspective is quoted, but the article does not develop its rationale or provide a substantive response from the criticized figures.
- Loaded language — Repeatedly uses emotionally charged and condemnatory labels.
- Source diversity — Relies mainly on one broadcast segment and the author’s interpretation.
The article’s language and framing strongly favor criticism of Soboroff and El-Sayed, while describing their positions in condemnatory terms. It gives little attention to arguments supporting the segment’s framing.
- Language tone — Uses strongly pejorative descriptions of El-Sayed, Piker, and Omar.
- Framing — Frames the broadcast as unfairly targeting Stevens while neglecting evidence against El-Sayed.
- Source selection — Relies on the broadcast excerpt and the author’s critique without offering a response from the criticized figures.
Newsbusters criticizes MS NOW host Jacob Soboroff for calling Haley Stevens’s accusation against Abdul El-Sayed racist, arguing that he did not adequately address El-Sayed’s criticism of AIPAC or his association with Hasan Piker.
Newsbusters recounts Stevens’s post accusing El-Sayed of blaming Jewish Americans for his problems and Soboroff’s response that the remarks sounded racist to him. In the segment, Ilhan Omar criticized Stevens’s post as having an underlying tone of Islamophobia and xenophobia.
The article argues that Soboroff gave insufficient attention to El-Sayed’s criticism of AIPAC and Israeli influence, and to his appearance at campus rallies with Hasan Piker. It says El-Sayed declined to disavow Piker’s comments, while describing Piker’s remarks as antisemitic.
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SWIPE →Michigan Senate candidate whose statements and association with Hasan Piker are discussed
Michigan representative and Senate candidate whose post about El-Sayed prompted Soboroff’s criticism
Stevens's version of this story ↗Representative campaigning for El-Sayed and responding to Stevens’s post
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