Billions of dollars in COVID-19 relief aid stolen or wasted, investigation reveals

Jun 12, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -12% Somewhat Liberal

  • Reliability

    35% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    4% Center

  • 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.

Sentiments

Overall Sentiment

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"Sperling, the White House official, said any future crisis that requires government intervention doesn't have to be a choice between helping people in need and stopping fraudsters."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"Biden also recently proposed a $1.6 billion plan to boost law enforcement efforts to go after pandemic relief fraudsters."
Negative
-32% Liberal
"Biden's 2021 American Rescue Plan authorized the spending of another $1.9 trillion."
Positive
6% Conservative
"Before leaving office, former President Donald Trump approved emergency aid measures totaling $3.2 trillion, according to figures from the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"RELATED: President Biden to end country's COVID-19 emergencies on May 11Never has so much federal emergency aid been injected into the U.S. economy so quickly."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"Biden in August signed legislation to increase the statute of limitations from five to 10 years on crimes involving the two major programs managed by the SBA."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"Hospitalizations for the virus have steadily declined, according to CDC data, and Biden in April ended the national emergency to respond to the pandemic."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"Biden also recently proposed a $1.6 billion plan to boost law enforcement efforts to go after pandemic relief fraudsters."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"The research, led by finance professor John Griffin, found as much as $117 billion in questionable and possibly fraudulent loans, citing indicators such as non-registered businesses and multiple loans to the same address."
Negative
-36% Liberal
"The Biden administration put in place stricter rules to stem pandemic fraud, including use of the Do Not Pay database."
Negative
-38% Liberal
"Most of the looted money was swiped from three large pandemic-relief initiatives launched during the Trump administration and inherited by President Joe Biden."
Positive
4% Conservative
"Most of the looted money was swiped from three large pandemic-relief initiatives launched during the Trump administration and inherited by President Joe Biden."
Positive
4% Conservative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : Sperling, the White House official, said any future crisis that requires government intervention doesn't have to be a choice between helping people in need and stopping fraudsters.
34% : Biden also recently proposed a $1.6 billion plan to boost law enforcement efforts to go after pandemic relief fraudsters.

*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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