NBC Chicago Article RatingDepartment of Education opens investigation into Harvard's legacy admissions
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-42% Moderately Liberal
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-42% Moderately Liberal
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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.
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| "Affirmative Action existed to support that notion." | Positive | 24% Conservative |
| "A spokesperson for Harvard on Tuesday said the university has been reviewing its admissions policies to ensure compliance with the law since the Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "Top colleges' preferential treatment of children of alumni, who are often white, has been facing new scrutiny since the Supreme Court last month struck down the use of affirmative action as a tool to diversify college campuses." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Legacy policies have been called into question after last month's Supreme Court ruling baing affirmative action and any consideration of race in college admissions." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "The Biden administration also argued that it was allowing potentially hundreds of thousands of people into the U.S. through the CBP One app." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "The Biden administration said the asylum rule was a key part of its strategy to strike a balance between strict border enforcement and ensuring several avenues for migrants to pursue valid asylum claims." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "But the judge delayed his ruling from taking effect immediately to give President Joe Biden's administration time to appeal." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "The order from U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar of the Northern District of California takes away a key enforcement tool set in place by the Biden administration as coronavirus-based restrictions on asylum expired in May." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Critics have argued that the rule is essentially a newer version of efforts by President Donald Trump to limit asylum at the southern border." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Tigar also ruled against the Trump administration's efforts to limit asylum to people who don't apply for protection in a country they travel through before coming to the U.S." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "While they wait for an adjudication, applicants for asylum must remain in Mexico, where migrants are generally at heightened risk of violence by both state and non-state actors, the judge, an appointee of President Barack Obama, wrote." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "Trump derided Tigar as an Obama judge after Tigar rejected a Trump administration policy barring people from applying for asylum except at an official border entry point." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Trump derided Tigar as an Obama judge after Tigar rejected a Trump administration policy barring people from applying for asylum except at an official border entry point." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
62% : Affirmative Action existed to support that notion.56% :A spokesperson for Harvard on Tuesday said the university has been reviewing its admissions policies to ensure compliance with the law since the Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action.
52% :Top colleges' preferential treatment of children of alumni, who are often white, has been facing new scrutiny since the Supreme Court last month struck down the use of affirmative action as a tool to diversify college campuses.
51% : Legacy policies have been called into question after last month's Supreme Court ruling banning affirmative action and any consideration of race in college admissions.
*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.