Brazilian president accused of 'witch doctoring' for promoting chloroquine | Crux Now

Aug 20, 2021 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -8% Center

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  • Policy Leaning

    6% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    42% 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

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"On the one hand, the outlawing of such activities had a progressive character, given that it was a science-based effort to modernize public healthcare in Brazil, said Camurça."
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6% Conservative
"But Bolsonaro was only imitating his master, Donald Trump, Bonvini added."
Positive
6% Conservative
"Jair Bolsonaro said on August 17 that he only gave the people an alternative when he promoted the treatment that was also advocated by former U.S. President Donald Trump."
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-24% Liberal
"Trump was the one who began defending the use of chloroquine against COVID-19."
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-26% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : On the one hand, the outlawing of such activities had a progressive character, given that it was a science-based effort to modernize public healthcare in Brazil, said Camurça.

*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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