Faith groups defend clergy loophole in child sex abuse reporting

Sep 29, 2022 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    6% Center

  • Reliability

    60% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    -16% Somewhat Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    98% Negative

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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"Fearing for her staff's safety, she reported some of them to state law enforcement."
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"The opposition of the Catholic Church was instrumental in creating a lot of controversy around the bill and a lot of questions related to religious freedom, Hill said."
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-20% Liberal
"It's considered essential to the exercise of religion to have a priest-penitent privilege that will allow people to to approach their clergy for the purpose of unburdening themselves, their mind, their soul ... to seek peace and consolation with God as well as with their fellow beings, Utah state Rep. Nelson told the AP."
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8% Conservative
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Fearing for her staff's safety, she reported some of them to state law enforcement.
40% : "The opposition of the Catholic Church was instrumental in creating a lot of controversy around the bill and a lot of questions related to religious freedom," Hill said.

*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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