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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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"The victims, who believed they were meeting her to smoke marijuana in a local park, were caught in a trap and attacked by the savage gangsters in what federal prosecutors called a horrific frenzy of violence." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
"A federal jury on Monday convicted a former Virginia police officer of storming the U.S. Capitol with another off-duty officer to obstruct Congress from certifying President Joe Biden's 2020 electoral victory." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
"Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Aloi told jurors that Robertson was charged for his actions, not his political beliefs." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
"Jurors saw some of Robertson's vitriolic posts on social media before and after the Capitol riot." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
"Robertson's jury trial was the second among hundreds of Capitol riot cases." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
"After listening to speeches near the Washington Monument, Fracker, Robertson and a neighbor walked toward the Capitol, doed the gas masks and joined the growing mob, prosecutors said." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
"Robertson has been jailed since Cooper ruled in July that he violated the terms of his pretrial release by possessing firearms." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
"Fracker broke off and entered the building before Robertson, but they reunited inside the Capitol." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
"Defense attorney Camille Wagner told jurors that Robertson only went into the Capitol because he wanted to retrieve Fracker, who entered the Capitol a few minutes before Robertson." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
"Defense attorney Camille Wagner told jurors that Robertson only went into the Capitol because he wanted to retrieve Fracker, who entered the Capitol a few minutes before Robertson." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
"Wagner also said Robertson should be judged by his actions, not his words." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
"The last charge stems from his alleged post-riot destruction of cellphones belonging to him and Jacob Fracker, who also served on the Rocky Mount police force and viewed Robertson as a mentor and father figure." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
"Robertson's trial is one of four so far for Capitol riot defendants." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
"Jurors convicted former Rocky Mount police officer Thomas Robertson of all six counts he faced stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, including charges that he interfered with police officers at the Capitol and that he entered a restricted area with a dangerous weapon, a large wooden stick." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
"Robertson was charged with six counts: obstruction of Congress, interfering with officers during a civil disorder, entering a restricted area while carrying a dangerous weapon, disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted area while carrying a dangerous weapon, disorderly or disruptive conduct inside the Capitol building, and obstruction." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
"Defense attorney Mark Rollins conceded that Robertson broke the law when he entered the Capitol during the riot." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
"In a Facebook post on Nov. 7, 2020, Robertson said being disenfranchised by fraud is my hard line.I've spent most of my adult life fighting a counter insurgency." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
"Robertson stopped to help his neighbor, who was having trouble breathing." | Negative | -40% Liberal |
"The town fired Robertson and Fracker after the riot." | Negative | -40% Liberal |
"During the trial's closing arguments Friday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Risa Berkower said Robertson went to Washington and joined a violent vigilante mob because he believed the election was stolen from then-President Donald Trump." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
"During the trial's closing arguments Friday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Risa Berkower said Robertson went to Washington and joined a violent vigilante mob because he believed the election was stolen from then-President Donald Trump." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
"He encouraged jurors to convict Robertson of misdemeanor offenses but urged them to acquit Robertson of felony charges that he used the stick as a dangerous weapon and that he intended to stop Congress from certifying the Electoral College vote." | Negative | -56% Liberal |
"He encouraged jurors to convict Robertson of misdemeanor offenses but urged them to acquit Robertson of felony charges that he used the stick as a dangerous weapon and that he intended to stop Congress from certifying the Electoral College vote." | Negative | -56% Liberal |
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32% : The victims, who believed they were meeting her to smoke marijuana in a local park, were caught in a trap and attacked by the savage gangsters in what federal prosecutors called "a horrific frenzy of violence."*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.