arXiv:2608.09936v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Do French news headlines frame left- and right-populist challengers as symmetric ``extremes,'' or as fundamentally different political adversaries? We examine 28,592 headlines about La France insoumise (LFI) and Rassemblement National (RN) published by 25 French-language outlets between 2022 and 2025, annotated through a three-model LLM pipeline validated against a stratified human audit. The clearest finding is role asymmetry rather than valence asymmetry: conflict framing and strategic-game framing are more robust across models and time than de
Role-framing analysis highlights media bias patterns, informing practitioners building NLP for journalism, moderation, or civic tech about framing artifacts that skew models.
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