C.I.A. Reorganization to Place New Focus on China

Oct 08, 2021 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -4% Center

  • Reliability

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  • Policy Leaning

    -18% Somewhat Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    6% Positive

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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"Mr. Pompeo created mission centers focused on North Korea and Iran."
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22% Conservative
"But a review of the agency's operations concluded that Iran and North Korea were best analyzed inside the context of their wider regions."
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14% Conservative
"Mr. Pompeo created mission centers focused on North Korea and Iran."
Positive
18% Conservative
"But Mr. Burns is undoing two changes put in place by Mr. Brean's successor, Mike Pompeo, who was President Donald J. Trump's first C.I.A. director."
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4% Conservative
"The changes reflect a general policy across the Biden administration's national security team of giving added attention to a new generation of challenges and threats to the United States after two decades in which terrorism dominated the work of the intelligence community."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"The changes are also an attempt to refine the broad reorganization of the C.I.A. undertaken in 2015 by John O. Brean, when he became director in the final years of the Obama administration."
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-10% Liberal

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Bias Meter

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Mr. Pompeo created mission centers focused on North Korea and Iran.
57% : But a review of the agency's operations concluded that Iran and North Korea were best analyzed inside the context of their wider regions.

*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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