AP News Summary at 10:47 a.m. EDT

Sep 02, 2022 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

    N/AN/A

  • Policy Leaning

    14% Somewhat Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    6% 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.

Sentiments

Overall Sentiment

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"Police have used the Fog Reveal database to search hundreds of billions of records drawn from 250 million devices, and have used the data to assemble location analyses known among law enforcement as patterns of life, according to company records."
Positive
8% Conservative
"Tech tool offers police 'mass surveillance on a budget'Local law enforcement agencies from suburban Southern California to rural North Carolina have been using an obscure cellphone tracking tool, at times without search warrants, that gives them the power to follow people's movements months back in time, according to public records and internal emails obtained by The Associated Press."
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-10% Liberal
"Footage from one of the officers' body cameras shows how quickly a previously noneventful evening on a quiet residential street in Childersburg devolved into yet another potentially explosive situation involving a Black man and white law enforcement authorities in the United States."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"Survivors say the significance of the assessment is that the weight and authority of the United Nations lends credibility to their accusations."
Negative
-40% Liberal
"Peltola, who is Yup'ik, will become the first Alaska Native to serve in the House and the first woman elected to Alaska's House seat, which was held for 49 years by Republican Don Young."
Positive
10% Conservative
"Lawyers for Trump say the appointment of a special master is necessary to ensure an independent inspection of the documents."
Positive
8% Conservative
"They say a review would allow for highly personal information such as diaries or journals to be separated from the investigation and returned to Trump."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"A federal judge in Florida is set to hear arguments Thursday afternoon on whether to appoint an outside legal expert to review government records seized by the FBI last month in a search of former President Donald Trump's Florida home."
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-22% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Police have used the "Fog Reveal" database to search hundreds of billions of records drawn from 250 million devices, and have used the data to assemble location analyses known among law enforcement as "patterns of life," according to company records.
45% :Tech tool offers police 'mass surveillance on a budget'Local law enforcement agencies from suburban Southern California to rural North Carolina have been using an obscure cellphone tracking tool, at times without search warrants, that gives them the power to follow people's movements months back in time, according to public records and internal emails obtained by The Associated Press.
37% : Footage from one of the officers' body cameras shows how quickly a previously noneventful evening on a quiet residential street in Childersburg devolved into yet another potentially explosive situation involving a Black man and white law enforcement authorities in the United States.
30% : Survivors say the significance of the assessment is that the weight and authority of the United Nations lends credibility to their accusations.

*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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