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The BBC is utterly beholden to the right. Why else would it fear a podcast about heat pumps? | George Monbiot

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  • Reliability

    80% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -57% 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:

48% : A study across nine years by Cardiff University of the non-party panellists invited on Question Time found that all the people who appeared most often are on the right.
47% : It praised the "political genius" of Donald Trump, suggested that Democrats are now seen as the extremists, and claimed that Trump is widely regarded as "making [America] normal again".
46% : This is part of a wider fossil-fuelled attempt to reverse environmental progress (assisted, incidentally, by the BBC's own studio, StoryWorks, which, according to reporting by DeSmog, has produced PR materials for fossil fuel companies, transport firms and other major polluters).
27% : So why shut down Davis's non-political podcast on heat pumps, but not Webb's inflammatory support for Trump?

*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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