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The Boston Globe Article Rating

Mwai Kibaki, third president of Kenya, dies at 90 - The Boston Globe

Apr 24, 2022 View Original Article
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    -8% Center

  • Reliability

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  • Policy Leaning

    -8% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -9% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : He pledged to make primary education for children free and to provide universal health care.
48% : In 2008, Kofi Annan, the former secretary general of the United Nations and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, stepped in to broker a power-sharing deal in which Mr. Kibaki would stay on as president while his rival, Odinga, would become prime minister.
42% : Election observers from the European Union charged that the results "lacked credibility" and suffered from "a lack of transparency."

*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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