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Boston.com Article Rating

More than 180 academic leaders, including many from Mass., condemn Trump 'overreach'

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    50% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -66% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

35% : The government's "political interference" and "overreach" is "now endangering higher education in America," they wrote.
18% : The signers come from a variety of colleges and universities from across the country, as well as higher education associations, illustrating the breadth of the threat they say President Donald Trump poses to academia.

*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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