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BBC Article Rating

Hundreds of US National Guard troops arrive in Chicago

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  • Reliability

    50% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    -12% Somewhat Left

  • Politician Portrayal

    -61% 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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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Trump has already sent guard members into Los Angeles and Washington, DC, and has ordered them to enter Memphis and Portland.
50% : Trump argues the use of the troops is necessary to quell violence in Democratic-controlled cities, crack down on crime and support his deportation initiatives.
50% : Asked about that in the Oval Office on Tuesday, Trump referenced Chicago and said that "if the governor can't do the job, we'll do the job".
42% : Trump has said that he would consider invoking an even older law, the Insurrection Act, if federal courts stopped his deployment of National Guard troops to US cities.
40% : Chicago has seen an increase in protests over immigration enforcement in the city, many of them happening outside US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities.
38% : Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson told BBC News on Tuesday that doing so, "literally handpicking National Guard people from another state, the state of Texas, and then sending them to the state of Illinois - this is illegal, unconstitutional, and dangerous".

*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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