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BBC Article Rating

New York City releases documents about air quality after 9/11

  • Bias Rating

    -4% Center

  • Reliability

    45% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    -4% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

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Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

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-11% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Christine Todd Whitman, the head of the EPA at the time, later apologised for this declaration, saying the agency "did the very best we could at the time with the knowledge we had".
40% : Days after the attack, city and federal officials - including the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - declared that the air near the Twin Towers was safe, though research suggests people were breathing in toxic chemicals.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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