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Trump may withhold pay for furloughed US employees

  • Bias Rating
  • Reliability

    10% ReliableLimited

  • Policy Leaning

    -10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -61% 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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-13% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : If adopted as official policy, that could threaten back pay for up to 700,000 furloughed scientists, administrators and other civil servants who have been ordered not to work since the shutdown began on October 1, according to Reuters.
50% : Speaking to reporters at the White House on the seventh day of the shutdown, Trump suggested that not all of those idled should be paid when normal operations resume.

*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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