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Defense Secretary Hegseth uses personal phone for Signal chat group, raising security concerns

Apr 21, 2025 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

    70% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    14% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : Caldwell, Selnick and Carroll wrote Saturday in a joint statement that they are "incredibly disappointed by the manner in which our service at the Department of Defense ended" and denied leaking information.
49% : Hegseth's brother Phil, as well as his lawyer Tim Parlatore, both have jobs at the Department of Defense.

*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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