Inside the Capitol Riot: An Exclusive Video Investigation

Jul 01, 2021 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -4% Center

  • Reliability

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  • Policy Leaning

    -10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    16% 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

Overall Sentiment

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"Law enforcement's relatively quick success in clearing the Capitol building once reinforcements arrived shows how the rioters might have been stopped far earlier with a different level of preparation -- possibly preventing fatalities,"
Negative
-10% Liberal
"There's about a million people on their way now, we heard a man in the crowd say, as Mr. Trump's speech played from a loudspeaker."
Positive
14% Conservative
"We tracked the movement of a group of rioters from the west side of the Capitol -- which faces the National Mall and absorbed most of the attendees arriving from Mr. Trump's speech -- to the opposite eastern side."
Positive
12% Conservative
"By carefully listening to the unfiltered chatter within the crowd, we found a clear feedback loop between President Trump and his supporters."
Positive
8% Conservative
"In one moment, a woman with a megaphone urged rioters to climb through a broken window by asking them to stand up for our country and Constitution -- echoing the language in an earlier tweet from Mr. Trump."
Positive
8% Conservative
"By identifying and tracking key players throughout the day, we found that most -- even some at the forefront of the action -- were ardent, but disorganized Trump supporters swept up in the moment and acting individually."
Positive
6% Conservative
"Speaker Nancy Pelosi was rushed to safety, but Representative Jim McGovern took her place presiding over the session."
Positive
0% Conservative
"Speaker Nancy Pelosi was rushed to safety, but Representative Jim McGovern took her place presiding over the session."
Positive
0% Conservative
"As Mr. Trump spoke near the White House, supporters who had already gathered at the Capitol building hoping to disrupt the certification responded."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"Ray Epps, an Arizona man seen in widely-circulated videos telling Trump supporters on multiple occasions to go into the Capitol, also seemed to have acted on his own."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"Ashli Babbitt, a Trump supporter and follower of the QAnon conspiracy theory, tried to climb through one of the door's broken windows toward the lawmakers."
Negative
-20% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : Law enforcement's relatively quick success in clearing the Capitol building once reinforcements arrived shows how the rioters might have been stopped far earlier with a different level of preparation -- possibly preventing fatalities,

*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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