The Atlantic Article Rating- Bias Rating
-42% Medium Liberal
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-60% Very Liberal
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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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| Sentence | Sentiment | Bias |
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| "It doesn't take much of a leap to conclude that the transformation of our nation's police from local guardians to GWOT warriors created more distance between officers and the communities they patrol, and exacerbated the tensions that led to the Black Lives Matter movement." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "But its agents primarily find themselves working what amounts to a humanitarian mission on the southern border as migrants flee violence in Central America." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "After the critique that federal law enforcement and spy agencies had failed to coect the dots took hold, everyone shared everything -- every tip seemed to be treated as fact." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "One DHS section, the newly formed Customs and Border Protection, experienced a surge of growth so poorly executed that the agency became a major corruption threat in the region near the border with Mexico." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "Appearing on NBC's Meet the Press two days later, Vice President Dick Cheney offered his own vengeful promise." | Positive | 20% Conservative |
| "To walk through Bill Clinton's presidential library in Little Rock today is to marvel at how low-stakes everything in the 1990s seemed." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "That demonization of Muslims helped give rise to the birtherism that Donald Trump embraced to wend his way into the hearts and minds of the Republican Party base, win the GOP's presidential nomination, and -- using a platform that stoked fears of immigrants, ISIS, and terrorists -- win the White House." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| ": President Donald Trump even promoted Gina Haspel, who had overseen a black site in Thailand, to director of the CIA." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| ": President Donald Trump even promoted Gina Haspel, who had overseen a black site in Thailand, to director of the CIA." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "Mitt Romney ran for president promising to double Guantanamo." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "In 2008, GOP speakers insinuated falsely that Barack Obama was a closet Muslim -- as if that mere faith, practiced by a billion people around the planet, should be disqualifying for a candidate." | Negative | -48% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
53% : It doesn't take much of a leap to conclude that the transformation of our nation's police from local guardians to GWOT warriors created more distance between officers and the communities they patrol, and exacerbated the tensions that led to the Black Lives Matter movement.50% : But its agents primarily find themselves working what amounts to a humanitarian mission on the southern border as migrants flee violence in Central America.
35% : After the critique that federal law enforcement and spy agencies had "failed to connect the dots" took hold, everyone shared everything -- every tip seemed to be treated as fact.
35% : One DHS section, the newly formed Customs and Border Protection, experienced a surge of growth so poorly executed that the agency became a major corruption threat in the region near the border with Mexico.
*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.