Ethiopia's 'progressive' approach to tackling climate change explained

Aug 06, 2021 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -20% Somewhat Liberal

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  • Policy Leaning

    -20% Somewhat Liberal

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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.

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"It is one of many policies, including a focus on renewable energy projects, that the Ethiopian Government is pursuing to develop a green economy, recognising the value of tackling climate change through an economic prism."
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20% Conservative
"Earlier this year, the New York Times revealed that Donald Trump's campaign had extracted tens of millions of dollars in extra contributions from his supporters by surreptitiously signing them up for recurring donations, mostly by using pre-checked boxes in online forms."
Positive
12% Conservative
"Three of the most prominent Trump backers in the House, Devin Nunes of California, Jim Jordan of Ohio and Matt Gaetz of Florida, also use pre-checked boxes."
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12% Conservative
"Three of the most prominent Trump backers in the House, Devin Nunes of California, Jim Jordan of Ohio and Matt Gaetz of Florida, also use pre-checked boxes."
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12% Conservative
"Three of the most prominent Trump backers in the House, Devin Nunes of California, Jim Jordan of Ohio and Matt Gaetz of Florida, also use pre-checked boxes."
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12% Conservative
"Three of the most prominent Trump backers in the House, Devin Nunes of California, Jim Jordan of Ohio and Matt Gaetz of Florida, also use pre-checked boxes."
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12% Conservative
"With the help of millions of American Patriots, President Trump has raised a record-setting amount of money to help elect America First conservatives and win back the House and Senate for Republicans in the 2022 midterm elections."
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10% Conservative
"Though Trump's messaging remains distinctive in terms of strident, overheated rhetoric, Salon's reporting makes clear that he is far from the only Republican to rely on pre-checked boxes in fundraising appeals."
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6% Conservative
"Refunds to donors who exceed legal limits are not infrequent in political campaigns, but that was a vastly higher sum than the amount refunded by Joe Biden's campaign."
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2% Conservative
"Concerns around Trump's donation scheme first emerged in April, when a Times investigation found that the former president's campaign operation had routinely been signing up contributors for monthly -- or even weekly -- recurring contributions, through deliberately bewildering online forms and pre-checked authorizations."
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0% Conservative
"That doesn't appear to have had made any meaningful impact on Trump's fundraising effort."
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-4% Liberal
"Amy Klobuchar, D-Mi., and Dick Durbin, D-Ill., recently aounced the introduction of a bill that would prohibit the use of pre-checked recurring donation boxes once and for all."
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-4% Liberal
"Amy Klobuchar, D-Mi., and Dick Durbin, D-Ill., recently aounced the introduction of a bill that would prohibit the use of pre-checked recurring donation boxes once and for all."
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-4% Liberal
"Michael Beckel, research director at Issue One, called the Trump campaign's continued reliance on recurring donations outrageous, saying in an email exchange with Salon that such pre-checked boxes have been shown to lead to consumer complaints and unhappy supporters."
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-6% Liberal
"Other Republican candidates and elected officials have followed along, embracing Trump's dubious fundraising practices just as they have embraced his politics."
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-8% Liberal
"Salon reached out to Trump's team, which declined to respond to questions on whether the use of pre-checked boxes was a sound fundraising practice."
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-8% Liberal
"In the weeks before Election Day last fall, the Trump campaign rolled out an increasingly opaque array of these boxes, which featured huge blocks of boldface or all-caps text, full of aggressive phrasing, evidently intended to distract donors from the opt-out language in smaller, fainter type below."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"Trump's fundraising appeals still appear to be automatically opting in donors for multiple contributions, which may partly account for $100 million-plus war chest the former president has accumulated since losing last year's election."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"This tactic, the Times reported, ensnared scores of unsuspecting Trump loyalists -- retirees, military veterans, nurses and even experienced political operatives."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"Republican lawmakers, Bookbinder suggested, are taking cues from Trump's open disregard for fundraising ethics."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"In fact, from July to December of 2020, under the Trump administration, the FEC lacked a quorum sufficient even to hold meetings, generating a massive backlog of 446 unresolved cases."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"In fact, a significant number of high-profile Republican senators employ the tactic, ranging across the GOP spectrum from loyal Trump supporters like Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Marsha Blackburn of Teessee and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin to Trump skeptics like Mitt Romney of Utah, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"In fact, a significant number of high-profile Republican senators employ the tactic, ranging across the GOP spectrum from loyal Trump supporters like Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Marsha Blackburn of Teessee and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin to Trump skeptics like Mitt Romney of Utah, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"In fact, a significant number of high-profile Republican senators employ the tactic, ranging across the GOP spectrum from loyal Trump supporters like Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Marsha Blackburn of Teessee and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin to Trump skeptics like Mitt Romney of Utah, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"In fact, a significant number of high-profile Republican senators employ the tactic, ranging across the GOP spectrum from loyal Trump supporters like Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Marsha Blackburn of Teessee and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin to Trump skeptics like Mitt Romney of Utah, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"In fact, a significant number of high-profile Republican senators employ the tactic, ranging across the GOP spectrum from loyal Trump supporters like Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Marsha Blackburn of Teessee and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin to Trump skeptics like Mitt Romney of Utah, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"In fact, a significant number of high-profile Republican senators employ the tactic, ranging across the GOP spectrum from loyal Trump supporters like Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Marsha Blackburn of Teessee and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin to Trump skeptics like Mitt Romney of Utah, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"In fact, a significant number of high-profile Republican senators employ the tactic, ranging across the GOP spectrum from loyal Trump supporters like Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Marsha Blackburn of Teessee and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin to Trump skeptics like Mitt Romney of Utah, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"Trump's campaign was forced to refund $122.7 million as a result of 200,000 disputed transactions in 2020."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"You have the tone being set by organizations that are working for Donald Trump, who has shown this kind of contempt for any type of rules or traditions meant to make things more fair, he said."
Negative
-38% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : It is one of many policies, including a focus on renewable energy projects, that the Ethiopian Government is pursuing to develop a green economy, recognising the value of tackling climate change through an economic prism.

*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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