Insider Trading — Civic term

What it means

Buying or selling a security while holding material, non-public information about it, in breach of a duty of trust or confidence. It reaches both corporate insiders and people who receive such information from them.

Definition drawn from law.cornell.edu · last verified 2026-08-17

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How it's being covered

258 stories in Sift's index, from 49 outlets.

Filed 2026-03-30 — 2026-09-22.

Counts stories whose headline or summary uses the term, plus stories where Sift's own reading notes flagged it — many pieces turn on a term they never spell out in the headline.

Across the spectrum

Left53 stories
Center111 stories
Right35 stories

Positions are AllSides' published ratings, shown for the outlets that filed these stories. 59 stories are counted in the total above but not placed here — either the outlet has no published rating, or Sift has not yet matched the name it files under to a dossier.

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