Assange's Wife Expresses Cautious Hope as Biden Suggests U.S. Might Drop Case

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    10% Center

  • Reliability

    45% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    10% 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

-11% Negative

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"Those three words offered the suggestion that the United States might no longer pursue Mr. Assange on charges under the Espionage Act over WikiLeaks' publishing of tens of thousands of secret military and diplomatic documents more than a decade ago.Ms. Assange said that the timing of the president's statement was notable coming just days before a deadline in the British court hearings on her husband's extradition."
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-12% Liberal
"President Biden, when asked by a reporter on Wednesday about a request from Australia, Mr. Assange's home country, that he be allowed to return there, replied, We're considering it."
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"Five years after Julian Assange, theWikiLeaks founder, was first imprisoned in a high-security facility in Britain while fighting a United States extradition request, the Biden administration has given the clearest signal to date that it might drop its prosecution of him."
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44% : Those three words offered the suggestion that the United States might no longer pursue Mr. Assange on charges under the Espionage Act over WikiLeaks' publishing of tens of thousands of secret military and diplomatic documents more than a decade ago.Ms. Assange said that the timing of the president's statement was notable coming just days before a deadline in the British court hearings on her husband's extradition.

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