Business Insider Article RatingGuy Reffitt, first Capitol rioter convicted at trial, gets a January 6 record of over 7 years behind bars
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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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| "Reffitt's trial featured dramatic testimony from his teenage son, Jackson Reffitt, who recounted reporting his father to law enforcement on Christmas Eve in 2020 after growing alarmed about his incendiary rhetoric and plans to do something big." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Judge Dabney Friedrich handed down the sentence five months after a jury convicted Reffitt on all five charges he faced following the Capitol siege, including obstruction of an official proceeding and threatening his own children to prevent them from reporting him to law enforcement." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "In a key portion of his testimony, Jackson Reffitt detailed a conversation in which his father told him and his younger sister that they would be traitors if they turned him in to law enforcement -- and that traitors get shot." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
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50% : Reffitt's trial featured dramatic testimony from his teenage son, Jackson Reffitt, who recounted reporting his father to law enforcement on Christmas Eve in 2020 after growing alarmed about his incendiary rhetoric and plans to do "something big."40% : Judge Dabney Friedrich handed down the sentence five months after a jury convicted Reffitt on all five charges he faced following the Capitol siege, including obstruction of an official proceeding and threatening his own children to prevent them from reporting him to law enforcement.
35% : In a key portion of his testimony, Jackson Reffitt detailed a conversation in which his father told him and his younger sister that they would be traitors if they turned him in to law enforcement -- and that "traitors get shot."
*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.