National security trial begins for Jimmy Lai, Hong Kong's pro-democracy media mogul

Dec 18, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -42% Medium Liberal

  • Reliability

    40% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    -42% Medium Liberal

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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

-6% Negative

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"Beijing and Hong Kong authorities have long painted Lai and his now-shuttered pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily, which was forced to close in June 2021, as the main instigators of anti-government protests that rocked Hong Kong in 2019."
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30% Conservative
"Lai was arrested just over a month after the law was introduced."
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-14% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : Beijing and Hong Kong authorities have long painted Lai and his now-shuttered pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily, which was forced to close in June 2021, as the main instigators of anti-government protests that rocked Hong Kong in 2019.
43% : Lai was arrested just over a month after the law was introduced.

*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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