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Los Angeles Times Article Rating

Trump confronts South African leader Ramaphosa over white farmers

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  • Reliability

    35% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -64% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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-29% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

38% : "We are completely opposed to that," Ramaphosa said of the behavior alleged by Trump in their exchange.
33% : "People are fleeing South Africa for their own safety," said Trump, who at one point dimmed the lights in the Oval Office to play a video of a communist politician playing a controversial anti-apartheid song that includes lyrics about killing a farmer.
22% : "Their land is being confiscated and in many cases they're being killed," Trump said.
17% : President Trump used a White House meeting to confront South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, accusing his country of failing to address the killing of white farmers.

*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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