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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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"Other widely adopted ALEC bills involved reducing benefits for welfare recipients and allowing companies to self-audit their compliance with environmental laws and then seal those records from the public." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
"Since its founding in 1973, the organization's work has laid the foundation for thousands of laws passed by state legislatures that have weakened labor unions, redirected public-school funding to private schools, hobbled the welfare state, restricted voting rights, and blocked or reshaped environmental regulations in favor of business interests." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
"Welfare is Methuselized poverty, and it replaces family with dependence on government." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
"McCoy added that their conversations were aimed at ridding legislation of negative stuff -- emissions reductions, taxes on fossil-fuel companies." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
"Manchin also sued the E.P.A. and the Army Corps of Engineers over new rules that limited mountaintop-removal mining, accusing the Obama Administration of attempting to destroy our coal industry." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
"Afterward, there was a lunchtime presentation of ALEC's aual Adam Smith Free Enterprise Award, which was given to two of the organization's funders: David and Charles Koch." | Positive | 20% Conservative |
"Prominent guests included Newt Gingrich, who became Speaker of the House the following year, and Grover Norquist, the anti-tax advocate." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
"Since Biden took office, Manchin has continued to take positions that align with ALEC's ideology." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
"ALEC is unique in the sense that it puts legislators and companies together and they create policy collectively, Scott Pruitt, a former ALEC leader and President Trump's head of the E.P.A., explained to Governing magazine, in 2003." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
"ALEC is unique in the sense that it puts legislators and companies together and they create policy collectively, Scott Pruitt, a former ALEC leader and President Trump's head of the E.P.A., explained to Governing magazine, in 2003." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
55% : Other widely adopted ALEC bills involved reducing benefits for welfare recipients and allowing companies to self-audit their compliance with environmental laws and then seal those records from the public. "52% : Since its founding in 1973, the organization's work has laid the foundation for thousands of laws passed by state legislatures that have weakened labor unions, redirected public-school funding to private schools, hobbled the welfare state, restricted voting rights, and blocked or reshaped environmental regulations in favor of business interests. "
42% : Welfare is Methuselized poverty, and it replaces family with dependence on government.
36% : McCoy added that their conversations were aimed at ridding legislation of "negative stuff" -- emissions reductions, taxes on fossil-fuel companies.
33% : Manchin also sued the E.P.A. and the Army Corps of Engineers over new rules that limited mountaintop-removal mining, accusing the Obama Administration of attempting "to destroy our coal industry."
*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.