Opinion | The day of musket rifles has passed

Aug 31, 2022 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -8% Center

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  • Policy Leaning

    -8% Center

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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.

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" "His oh-so-familiar argument is that the restriction violates Second Amendment rights."
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8% Conservative
" Biden has a historic opportunity to tackle this challenge and has committed to doing so."
Positive
24% Conservative
" Then when Blinken said the U.S. government had made a significant proposal to Russia to free Griner and fellow American Paul Whelan, some observers opined that the releases were imminent."
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-2% Liberal
" nnBiden's executive order increased sanctioning powers for targeting officials and individuals deemed to benefit from a government taking Americans hostage; by design, the order casts a wide, if somewhat vague, net.nn"
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-2% Liberal
" "We are committed to stopping those who use detention for gain, placing this practice in the dustbin of history once and for all," Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in an email."
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-4% Liberal
" "Part of combatting this threat over the longer-term will be to raise the costs for those who engage in this practice," Blinken wrote in his email."
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-10% Liberal
" The new public position is part of efforts to bolster and underscore international norms against hostage-taking and wrongful detention, which senior State Department staff say is a "personal priority" for Blinken.nn"
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-16% Liberal
" When President Biden issued the executive order, many people assumed it was an attempt to address the detention of WNBA superstar Brittney Griner."
Negative
-16% Liberal
" Despite criticism that the pace of hostage recovery during the Biden administration has been slow, one fact is clear: More resources are being poured into combating this problem than ever before."
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-24% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : His oh-so-familiar argument is that the restriction violates Second Amendment rights.

*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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