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Microsoft outage: Airlines issue advisory; Australia's spy agency, police impacted

Guardian Australia and The Sun UK describe the same event in different terms.

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Same story. Different framing. Left, center, and right outlets are covering the same event. Here’s how each side worded it.

DIFFERENT SPIN

HOW EACH SIDE WORDED IT

Left-leaningMicrosoft scrambles to fix global outage affecting Teams and OutlookGuardian AustraliaMixed
Right-leaningCan't access your Outlook inbox? Microsoft suffers colossal global outage, with millions cut off from emailGB NewsMixed
Center baseline · The Times of IndiaHighMicrosoft outage: Airlines issue advisory; Australia's spy agency, police impacted

As of November 13, 2026 at 10:19 AM, this is how Optics News reads the wording differences in this story.

What happened Microsoft outage: Airlines issue advisory; Australia's spy agency, police impacted.
The headline split The left frames it as "Microsoft scrambles to fix global outage affecting Teams and Outlook". The right frames it as "Can't access your Outlook inbox? Microsoft suffers colossal global outage, with millions...".
Match confidence High confidence. 27 sources checked, Left/Center/Right all represented. Best read as a clear framing signal — not a fact-check.
Same-event confidenceHigh

27 sources across Left, Center, and Right all describe the same event.

Framing confidenceStrong

90/99 — headlines create a clearly different first impression.

WHAT EACH SIDE EMPHASIZED

Left / center-leftMicrosoft battling major worldwide outage

CBS News - MoneyWatch · Center-left · News report

CenterMicrosoft outage: Airlines issue advisory; Australia's spy agency, police impacted

The Times of India · Center · News report

Right / center-rightMicrosoft platforms including Outlook, Teams down as tech giant struggles to fix outage

New York Post · Center-right · News report

SEE THE HEADLINES

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New York PostNews report · Nov 13, 8:16 AM

Microsoft platforms including Outlook, Teams down as tech giant struggles to fix outage

A disruption of Microsoft services such as Outlook, Teams and Copilot stretched into Asia-Pacific business ‌hours on Friday after affecting thousands of US users, as the tech giant struggle...

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The Times of IndiaNews report · Nov 13, 8:37 AM

Microsoft outage: Airlines issue advisory; Australia's spy agency, police impacted

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ABC News Australia Top StoriesNews report · Nov 13, 6:41 AM

How the Microsoft outage is affecting Australia

Australians wake to empty inboxes due to an issue with Microsoft's products, leading to cancelled appointments, grounded flights and School of Air's closure.

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Bloomberg - TechnologyNews report · Nov 13, 7:00 AM

Microsoft Outage Gums Up Markets, Forces Traders to Use Phones

Microsoft Outlook went dark on Rita Elkazzi just as a volatile week in markets was coming to an end. As swings in AI stocks and bonds kept traders on edge, the UBS Group AG execution-sales...

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CBS News - MoneyWatchNews report · Nov 13, 10:15 AM

Microsoft battling major worldwide outage

A Microsoft outage involving services like Outlook and Teams has dragged on for hours and impacted many users, companies and some government operations as the tech giant struggles to fix Th...

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Dawn PakistanNews report · Nov 13, 7:44 AM

Microsoft says 'not aware of any malicious activity' causing Outlook outage

Microsoft said that it was not aware of any “malicious activity” behind the hours-long disruption of its Outlook services. “As of now, we are not aware of any malicious activity that is cau...

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EuronewsExplainer · Nov 13, 10:17 AM

Microsoft outage explained: what went wrong and is your data at risk?

Governments, doctor surgeries and even rival AI firms have been caught up, and the episode is sharpening questions about Europe's reliance on a handful of US tech giants.

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GB NewsNews report · Nov 13, 8:23 AM

Can't access your Outlook inbox? Microsoft suffers colossal global outage, with millions cut off from email

Can't send or receive email in Outlook this morning? You're not alone. The popular email client is offline for millions worldwide due to a massive outage. Microsoft has been firefighting th...

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Irish IndependentNews report · Nov 13, 9:10 AM

Adrian Weckler: Microsoft email outage - what we know and when it might be fixed

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India TodayNews report · Nov 13, 7:47 AM

Microsoft outage hits businesses, Air India and Indi Go issue alerts

Microsoft outage hits businesses Air India and Indi Go issue alerts

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Irish TimesNews report · Nov 13, 8:37 AM

Microsoft races to restore services after global outage

Issue affecting Outlook, Teams and other services not caused by ‘malicious or cyber activity’, company says

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The Mirror UKNews report · Nov 13, 9:30 AM

Microsoft outage 'could be one of most damaging in history'

Experts have been reacting to the major global outage this morning

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The Sydney Morning HeraldNews report · Nov 13, 10:01 AM

Microsoft’s attempts to resolve major outage ‘not working as expected’

The tech giant is turning servers off and on again as it works to fix an outage affecting tens of thousands of users around the world.

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The Straits TimesNews report · Nov 13, 8:20 AM

Microsoft outage gums up markets, forces traders to use phones

“It’s been a bit of a disaster,” one Sydney-based bank executive said.

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Stuff (New Zealand)News report · Nov 13, 8:29 AM

14 hours and counting: Microsoft outage drags on as failed fixes leave services in limbo

A global Microsoft outage has yet to be resolved, affecting hundreds of thousands of users, including in New Zealand.

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The Age (Australia)News report · Nov 13, 10:01 AM

Microsoft’s attempts to resolve major outage ‘not working as expected’

The tech giant is turning servers off and on again as it works to fix an outage affecting tens of thousands of users around the world.

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Epoch Times WorldNews report · Nov 13, 7:25 AM

Microsoft Outage Could Cost Australian Businesses Billions

Risk advisory firm RSM Australia said the financial impact had already been massive after the systems had been down for 12 hours.

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Guardian AustraliaNews report · Nov 13, 9:08 AM

Microsoft scrambles to fix global outage affecting Teams and Outlook

Tech company ‘seeing positive results’ with efforts and says no indication problem was caused by cyber-attack Microsoft outage – live updates Tell us: have you been affected by the Microsof...

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The HinduNews report · Nov 13, 9:35 AM

Microsoft 365 outage drags on as company observes ‘limited recovery’

A map posted by Downdetector on X showed the outage affected users across the Americas, and parts of Europe, Asia and Africa

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The Local GermanyNews report · Nov 13, 9:20 AM

Microsoft outage hits Germany and Deutsche Bahn

Companies and consumers worldwide were affected by a major cloud-based service disruption at Microsoft. At Deutsche Bahn email communications were temporarily down.

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The National (Scotland)News report · Nov 13, 7:47 AM

Microsoft outage continues as fix 'not going as expected'

Microsoft outage disrupts Teams, Outlook, Copilot and cloud services in the UK and worldwide, while the tech giant says there is no sign of a cyber attack

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Toronto StarNews report · Nov 13, 9:00 AM

In the news today: Microsoft outage, plane loses wheel, Carney heads to Manila

Rohingya refugee girls attend a class at their school in the Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

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The Sun UKNews report · Nov 13, 10:19 AM

UK supermarkets hit by Microsoft outage as major chain issues warning

A MAJOR UK supermarket has reported issues with its online systems amid Microsoft's continued global outage. Customers have been warned that certain online operations cannot be used. Asda h...

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Times of IsraelNews report · Nov 13, 9:10 AM

Microsoft outage hits companies, governments worldwide as it struggles to fix issue

Microsoft 365 offerings, including Outlook and Teams, are down, with no end in sight as tech giant admits efforts to restore services are 'not taking as expected'

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Vanguard (Nigeria)News report · Nov 13, 8:32 AM

Microsoft says ‘not aware of any malicious activity’ causing Outlook outage

Microsoft said Thursday that it was not aware of any “malicious activity” behind the hours-long disruption of its Outlook services. “As of now, we are not aware of any malicious activity th...

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Details90/99 Wording Gap · High confidence · 27 sources
90/99 Wording GapHigh confidence27 sources · 3 bias bucketsStable · 27 sources · all three buckets · comparable news formatFormats: News report, Explainer

SOURCE MAP CHANGES

Nov 13, 4:18 AM: WMUR Hearst WLKY32 (Louisville) joined the source map.

Nov 13, 6:41 AM: ABC News Australia Top Stories joined the source map.

Nov 13, 7:00 AM: Bloomberg - Technology joined the source map.

Nov 13, 7:25 AM: Epoch Times World joined the source map.

Now: Wording Gap is 90/99 and story health is stable · 27 sources · all three buckets · comparable news format.