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Things to know about Nicolas Sarkozy, France's new prison inmate who used to be president

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    4% Center

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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:

50% : He made national headlines in 1993 when he helped negotiate the release of children held by a hostage-taker strapped with explosives, who called himself "Human Bomb." Unafraid to break French taboos, Sarkozy breathed some real-world modernity into the tradition-bound presidency, going jogging and biking in public.
48% : Proudly tough on crime when he was in government, Sarkozy now has to adjust to the strict constraints of hours and days governed by penitentiary rules.

*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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