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College Board revises African American studies class after DeSantis criticism

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Source The Hill bias rating
Published Feb 01, 2023
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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.

Policy Leaning Analysis

This article includes the following sentiments, providing an average bias score of 4% Conservative:

  • 1 positive sentiment and 1 negative sentiment for Black Lives Matter Protest.

Politician Portrayal Analysis:

This article includes the following Politician Portrayal sentiments, providing an average sentiment of 40% Negative and bias score of -46% Liberal:

1 positive sentiment for J.B. Pritzker
2 negative sentiments for Ron DeSantis

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Black Lives Matter Protest

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J.B. Pritzker
Ron DeSantis

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4% Meanwhile, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) sent a letter to the College Board stating he expects any AP African American studies course to "include ..."
4% "Other topics, like Black Lives Matter, are now optional.""
-6% "Gov. DeSantis' whitewashing of history and book bans are his latest assault on American history and our First Amendment rights," Florida Sen. Shevrin Jones ..."
-8% "The administration specifically named topics of intersectionality, Black Queer Studies, the Black Lives Matter movement, Black Feminist Literary Thought, the reparations movement and the ..."
-38% The College Board on Wednesday released a revised version of an Advanced Placement African American studies course following criticism from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ..."

*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. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Other topics, like Black Lives Matter, are now optional.
46% :The administration specifically named topics of intersectionality, Black Queer Studies, the Black Lives Matter movement, Black Feminist Literary Thought, the reparations movement and the Black Study and Black Struggle in the 21st Century as key concerns.

*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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