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ABC7 News Article Rating

21% of TSA agents called out at Long Beach Airport Saturday, among highest in US amid shutdown

  • Bias Rating

    -52% Medium Left

  • Reliability

    50% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    -70% Medium Left

  • Politician Portrayal

    -33% 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.

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18% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : READ MORE: Transportation Secretary Duffy says ICE agents are trained and can assist TSA at airports "They run those same type of security machines at the southern border, right?
45% : Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy defended the decision to use ICE agents at airports, saying they are trained to operate screening equipment.
43% : But the national president of the American Federation of Government Employees disagreed, arguing ICE personnel are not trained or certified in aviation security.
39% : President Donald Trump plans to deploy Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents beginning Monday to help bolster understaffed airport security checkpoints.
9% : California Gov. Gavin Newsom criticized the move on social media Sunday, writing, "By sending ICE into airports, Trump is proving the problem in real time: ICE has become the president's lawless, under-trained, personal police force, deployed to serve his agenda -- not the law.

*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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