Several Women Who Dated Graham Platner Recall 'Unsettling' Behavior

The New York Times is an established national newsroom with substantial original reporting and named reporters. This article describes its interviews and documentary review and identifies where accounts could not be independently corroborated.

• ▸Track record — Established national newspaper with a long record of original reporting.
• ▸Editorial standards — Reports denials and explicitly identifies limits to corroboration.
• ▸Author attribution — Two named political reporters are credited, with additional research contributors identified.
• ▸Transparency — Describes interviews, reviewed records and sourcing methods.

The article draws on interviews with more than two dozen people, contemporaneous messages, diary entries and other records, and includes Platner’s and his campaign’s responses as well as accounts from former partners who recalled positive relationships. It also flags that some serious allegations could not be independently corroborated.

The article includes several critical accounts and substantial reporting about them, while also presenting positive accounts from three former partners, Platner’s response, campaign denials and the limits of corroboration. The critical accounts nevertheless occupy most of the story.

• ▸Counterarguments presented — Includes Platner’s and his campaign’s denials and accounts from former partners who described positive relationships.
• ▸Source diversity — Reports interviews with more than two dozen people and reviews messages and diary entries.
• ▸Omitted context — States where the newspaper could not independently corroborate allegations.
• ▸Loaded language — Charged descriptions are attributed to sources or used in the headline as a quoted characterization.

The article uses neutral reporting language, attributes allegations and denials, and presents both critical and positive accounts from former partners. Its focus on troubling allegations reflects the reported subject rather than a clear partisan framing.

• ▸Language tone — Claims and descriptions are generally attributed to interviewees rather than asserted as established fact.
• ▸Source selection — Includes critical accounts, positive accounts and responses from Platner’s campaign.
• ▸Framing — Frames the article around competing accounts of past relationships and the candidate’s personal-growth narrative.