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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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| Sentence | Sentiment | Bias |
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| "Ditto for questions like, Do you favor or oppose providing a way for undocumented immigrants already in the United States to become citizens?" | Positive | 30% Conservative |
| "Support for the Green New Deal similarly wobbled if brushed with a light feather of context." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "Two years ago, progressives cited support for the Green New Deal at 80 percent, Medicare for All at 70 percent (including 52 percent of Republicans), and Free College for All at 60 percent." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "After all, do most people outside elite political circles really spend their time thinking about health policy, let alone sub-issues like universal coverage, choice of doctors, or prescription drug price negotiations?" | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Consider that first question on marijuana." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "No (one-third of Americans don't know that Obamacare and the Affordable Care Act are the same thing)." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Do I not care much about this particular question, but still use a candidate's views on marijuana as a signifier of their ideology, which is something that I do care about?" | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Question 16: Should the government raise taxes on incomes above $200,000." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Moderate Democrats responded that support for Medicare for All dropped to 48 percent when voters were informed that it is the same as single-payer coverage, and 34 percent when told that it might raise taxes." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "But I don't think marijuana should be exactly legal either, given our limited understanding of the drug." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "To help us understand, he offers a 20-question survey of major policy issues (Question 1: Marijuana should be legal, offering five response options ranging from strongly agree to strongly disagree)." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Probing for views on health care policy or taxes may not introduce the same set of biases in respondents." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "I think we shouldn't send people to overcrowded prisons and ruin their lives for possessing marijuana, especially given the stark racial disparities in arrests." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "Clyburn and Hayes provide a perfect illustration of the workings of the Washington Democrat Establishment which is a self-serving, self-promoting, self-preserving, corrupt, and nepotistic cabal." | Positive | 48% Conservative |
| "Clyburn and Hayes provide a perfect illustration of the workings of the Washington Democrat Establishment which is a self-serving, self-promoting, self-preserving, corrupt, and nepotistic cabal." | Positive | 48% Conservative |
| "It has to be remembered that Clyburn's endorsement of Biden helped pave the way for his victory in South Carolina, in the Super Tuesday states a few days later." | Positive | 32% Conservative |
| "It has to be remembered that Clyburn's endorsement of Biden helped pave the way for his victory in South Carolina, in the Super Tuesday states a few days later." | Positive | 32% Conservative |
| "FEC records also revealed that Clyburn has paid over $260,000 to family members since 2010 via the 'Friends of Jim Clyburn' campaign committee." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "FEC records also revealed that Clyburn has paid over $260,000 to family members since 2010 via the 'Friends of Jim Clyburn' campaign committee." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "He has been paid $58,500 by the 'Friends of Jim Clyburn' campaign committee since October 2021." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "This helped Biden clinch the nomination." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "Reed describes himself as Clyburn's campaign manager on his Twitter account and is a salaried employee of the Clyburn campaign." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Reed describes himself as Clyburn's campaign manager on his Twitter account and is a salaried employee of the Clyburn campaign." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Federal Election Commission(FEC) filings revealed Clyburn paid his grandson Walter A.C. Reed a sum of $21,000 in campaign funds since April 1." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "The Clyburn campaign has paid the Magnolia Blossom more than $70,000 since March 2020." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "During Q4 2021, FEC records reveal that Hayes paid over $15,000 in increments of $282 each to David Crenshaw under the category of Payroll." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "During Q4 2021, Friends of Jahana Hayes paid Hayes' daughter, Asia Clermont, $2,551 from her campaign fund in increments of $359 each, and since entering Congress, has paid Asia $21,299." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Next is Democratic Coecticut Rep. Jahana Hayes." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "The campaign committee also paid $7,500 in rent on April 29 to 49 Magnolia Blossom LLC, controlled by Clyburn's daughter Jeifer Clyburn Reed as well as Walter Reed." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "President Trump rightly referred to this very establishment as the swamp." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Foremost among the numerous catastrophes that Joe Biden has presided over is inflation which has risen to a 40-year high." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Despite scrutiny for paying her adult children tens of thousands of dollars merely to store passwords on her campaign, Q1 FEC records show Hayes is still paying her daughter Asia upwards of $700 per month." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "Recent FEC records revealed Hayes is still paying her son David around $300 per month." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "While regular people are suffering due to Biden's misgovernance, the Establishment remains insulated, this is why they exhibit Mary Antoinette-like behavior while addressing regular people such as boasting about driving expensive electric cars while the price of fuel rises." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Hayes's children weren't the only beneficiaries of her charity, Hayes reimbursed herself $250 dollars for petty cash despite the FEC having strict rules about petty cash reimbursements." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Hayes's children weren't the only beneficiaries of her charity, Hayes reimbursed herself $250 dollars for petty cash despite the FEC having strict rules about petty cash reimbursements." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Democrat billionaire Tom Steyer's failed 2020 presidential campaign also paid Magnolia Blossom more than $45,000 for office space." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "The Daily Caller reported that Democrats such as House Majority Whip James Clyburn of South Carolina, and Coecticut Rep. Jahana Hayes, are using their campaign fund to enrich family members." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "The Daily Caller reported that Democrats such as House Majority Whip James Clyburn of South Carolina, and Coecticut Rep. Jahana Hayes, are using their campaign fund to enrich family members." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "The same establishment threw into a coiption whenever President Trump invited conducted meetings with political leaders at his properties." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "In exchange, Clyburn's misuse of his campaign funds will be overlooked." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "The establishment also used the might of the government to hound President Trump and look through all his finances desperate to find issues." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "These revelations come on top of better-known ones about Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters also paying her daughter from campaign funds for questionable services, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez paying her boyfriend inflated amounts for services from her campaign cash, as well as engaging in deceptive fundraising oddities." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "These revelations come on top of better-known ones about Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters also paying her daughter from campaign funds for questionable services, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez paying her boyfriend inflated amounts for services from her campaign cash, as well as engaging in deceptive fundraising oddities." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "Few or perhaps none in the corporate media care to expose these cases of corruption by Clyburn or Hayes not only because of fears of being called 'racist' but because everybody is profiting from it in their own way." | Negative | -44% Liberal |
| "Few or perhaps none in the corporate media care to expose these cases of corruption by Clyburn or Hayes not only because of fears of being called 'racist' but because everybody is profiting from it in their own way." | Negative | -44% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
65% : Ditto for questions like, "Do you favor or oppose providing a way for undocumented immigrants already in the United States to become citizens?"57% : Support for the Green New Deal similarly wobbled if brushed with a light feather of context.
54% : Two years ago, progressives cited support for the Green New Deal at 80 percent, Medicare for All at 70 percent (including 52 percent of Republicans), and Free College for All at 60 percent.
53% : After all, do most people outside elite political circles really spend their time thinking about health policy, let alone sub-issues like universal coverage, choice of doctors, or prescription drug price negotiations?
51% :Consider that first question on marijuana.
47% : No (one-third of Americans don't know that Obamacare and the Affordable Care Act are the same thing).
45% : Do I not care much about this particular question, but still use a candidate's views on marijuana as a signifier of their ideology, which is something that I do care about?
45% : Question 16: "Should the government raise taxes on incomes above $200,000."
45% : Moderate Democrats responded that support for Medicare for All dropped to 48 percent when voters were informed that it is the same as single-payer coverage, and 34 percent when told that it might raise taxes.
43% : But I don't think marijuana should be exactly "legal" either, given our limited understanding of the drug.
42% : To help us understand, he offers a 20-question survey of major policy issues (Question 1: "Marijuana should be legal," offering five response options ranging from "strongly agree" to "strongly disagree").
39% : Probing for views on health care policy or taxes may not introduce the same set of biases in respondents.
36% : I think we shouldn't send people to overcrowded prisons and ruin their lives for possessing marijuana, especially given the stark racial disparities in arrests.
*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.