The Guardian Article RatingMen sentenced to prison for supporting plot to kidnap Michigan governor
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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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| "Fox and Barry Croft Jr were described as captains of an incredible plan to snatch Whitmer from her vacation home, seeking to inspire a US civil war known as the boogaloo." | Positive | 20% Conservative |
| "The judge, Thomas Wilson, presided over the first batch of convictions in state court, following the high-profile conspiracy convictions of four others in federal court." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "But defense attorneys argued that the trio cut ties with Fox before the Whitmer plot came into focus by late summer 2020." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Whitmer, recently elected to a second term, was never physically harmed." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "But Wilson took the unusual step of ordering consecutive sentences for Musico and Morrison, making their minimum stays longer." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "In a recorded video, the governor, Gretchen Whitmer, urged the judge to impose a sentence that meets the gravity of the damage they have done to our democracy." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "The three held gun training with Fox in rural Jackson county and shared his disgust for Whitmer, police and public officials, especially after Covid-19 restrictions disrupted the economy and triggered armed Capitol protests and anti-government belligerence." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "A conspiracy to kidnap and kill a sitting governor of the state of Michigan is a threat to democracy itself, said Whitmer, adding that she now scans crowds for threats and worries about the fate of everyone near me." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "When the plot was foiled, Whitmer blamed then-president Donald Trump, saying he had given comfort to those who spread fear and hatred and division." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "When the plot was foiled, Whitmer blamed then-president Donald Trump, saying he had given comfort to those who spread fear and hatred and division." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "In August, after 19 months out of office, Trump said the kidnapping plan was a fake deal." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
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