
What We Know About Trump's Fox News Defense Secretary Pick
- Bias Rating
- Reliability
95% ReliableExcellent
- Policy Leaning
10% Center
- Politician Portrayal
-35% Negative
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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.
Sentiments
18% Positive
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
46% : Trump is also pushing for senators to allow recess appointments of his nominees, which would give the president-elect the power to circumvent Senate confirmations for his nominations.40% : "With Pete at the helm, America's enemies are on notice -- Our Military will be Great Again, and America Will Never Back Down," Trump wrote on TruthSocial on Tuesday.
33% : Trump would later intervene to prevent Gallagher from losing his rank.
31% : But Trump went in a very different direction for his Defense secretary pick, tapping Fox News commentator and Army National Guard officer Pete Hegseth.
18% : According to the outlet, Hegseth had multiple conversations with Trump about Eddie Gallagher, a Navy SEAL who was accused of murdering a teenage ISIS prisoner and posing with the corpse in a photo.
*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.