New Jersey sues federal highway officials in bid to stop New York City's plan to charge big tolls

  • Bias Rating

    38% Moderately Conservative

  • Reliability

    45% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

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  • Politician Portrayal

    38% Negative

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

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"New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy aounced his state's plans on Friday."
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18% Conservative
"John J. McCarthy, the MTA's external relations chief, said the 4,000-page Environmental Assessment performed by the MTA, New York State DOT and New York City DOT was supervised at every stage and specifically approved by the Biden administration."
Positive
8% Conservative
"Murphy, though, said commuters headed in to the city will instead find different ways to avoid paying higher tolls, resulting in more traffic and more pollution."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"(The FHA) finding that the MTA congestion pricing program will not have any significant impacts is an error, Murphy, said."
Negative
-44% Liberal

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*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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