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Princeton researcher Tsurkov released from militia captivity in Iraq

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  • Reliability

    50% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -27% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : " Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked Trump for his help in gaining Tsurkov's release, a senior U.S. official said.
29% : The release came days after Trump signed an executive order paving the way for the U.S. to designate countries around the world as state sponsors of wrongful detention and impose punitive measures on those it deems are wrongfully holding Americans.
25% : Trump said on social media that Tsurkov "is now safely in the American Embassy in Iraq after being tortured for many months.

*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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