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The Guardian Article Rating

Friday briefing: Reform takes Labour scalp in knife-edge Runcorn byelection

  • Bias Rating

    -4% Center

  • Reliability

    75% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    -4% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -52% 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

Overall Sentiment

11% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : " Ahead of the vote, there were suggestions that tactical anti-Reform voting might play a crucial role here.
52% : The extraordinarily tight margin of the first count - four votes - was followed by a full recount, and close scrutiny of every ballot ("I've seen more drawings of penises than I've ever seen in my life," one observer told Josh Halliday).
47% : Football | In a U-turn, the Football Association will ban transgender women from playing in women's football from 1 June following the ruling from the supreme court that the term "woman" in the Equality Act refers only to a biological woman.

*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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