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ABC7 News Article Rating

British journalist Sami Hamdi detained at SFO after DHS deems him a threat to national security

  • Bias Rating
  • Reliability

    50% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    -58% Medium Left

  • Politician Portrayal

    -60% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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-23% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : William Gould, emeritus law professor at Stanford Law School said the detention by ICE is a sign.
43% : Hamdi was heading to speak at another CAIR Gala in Florida when ICE detained him.
42% : This has to stop, because it's purely protected First Amendment right speech that people are being harassed for and being imprisoned for now," said Van Der Hout. ABC7 News reached out to ICE and the U.S Department of Homeland Security but has not heard back.
38% : "I think this is the latest attempt by this administration to silence people who want to speak out against what this administration is doing in Israel and what the Israeli government is doing in Gaza.

*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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