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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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| Sentence | Sentiment | Bias |
|---|---|---|
| "His motivations for moving here are political: Universal health care." | Positive | 24% Conservative |
| "From his comfortable ground-floor study, he writes emails and sends money to campaigns with a single goal: Trump can't win." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "Trump said those violent insurrectionists were patriots and promised to free them if he becomes president." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "I'm not the only former war correspondent who watched the violence inspired by Trump in his first term and worried he would push our country toward armed confrontation." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "In the face of this, McDermott certainly has the right to live out his remaining years as he pleases." | Positive | 26% Conservative |
| "From his comfortable ground-floor study, he writes emails and sends money to campaigns with a single goal: Trump can't win." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "So far, McDermott is willing to pay the high price of his move." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "None of this was on McDermott's mind when, in 2017, he took a vacation in southwest France inspired by Martin Walker's novel Bruno, Chief of Police." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Once here, McDermott did something completely out of character." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "That is how a slow-motion move to a saner and more humane life became a potential refuge from a second Trump presidency." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "He is a member of Democrats Abroad, pours money into Democratic campaigns and is eager to vote for President Biden in November." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "The last shipment of McDermott's belongings arrived in France this month." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "He made a radical leap from a comfortable retirement in the United States to a stone cottage in rural France for reasons that are suddenly timely for friends and former colleagues in D.C. who are facing the possibility that a vengeful Donald Trump could win the presidential election." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Respect for women's reproductive rights, including abortion, the issue on which McDermott won his first election in 1970." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Trump said those violent insurrectionists were patriots and promised to free them if he becomes president." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "McDermott's experience raises serious questions for Americans, especially those in positions of power." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "McDermott isn't one of those." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "In his first term, Trump encouraged chaos and shows of violence, as well as undermined basic rights and pillars of American democracy." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "In private conversations with McDermott, they wonder how to gauge the seriousness of Trump's increasingly dire threats to the country's democratic underpiings and, potentially, to them and their families." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "In private conversations with McDermott, they wonder how to gauge the seriousness of Trump's increasingly dire threats to the country's democratic underpiings and, potentially, to them and their families." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "CIVRAC-EN-Mu00c9DOC, France -- Jim McDermott never intended to become an expatriate." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "McDermott is an unlikely figure to give voice to this dilemma." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "I'm not the only former war correspondent who watched the violence inspired by Trump in his first term and worried he would push our country toward armed confrontation." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
62% : His motivations for moving here are political: Universal health care.58% : From his comfortable ground-floor study, he writes emails and sends money to campaigns with a single goal: "Trump can't win."
46% : Trump said those violent insurrectionists were patriots and promised to free them if he becomes president.
32% : I'm not the only former war correspondent who watched the violence inspired by Trump in his first term and worried he would push our country toward armed confrontation.
*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.