Putin ally warns of nuclear threat, Markey pushes back

  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

    75% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    4% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    70% 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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"We see a rise in the attention being paid and the desire for nuclear weapons obviously in Iran, in Saudi Arabia, in North Korea."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"After 40 years of attempting to fight the spread of nuclear arms through an era of heightened tensions with the Soviet Union -- Markey published a book on the subject in 1982 -- the senator seems less than convinced the situation has been much improved."
Positive
2% Conservative
"Nuclear powers have never lost major conflicts on which their fate depends.U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, speaking at the Harvard Keedy School, said diplomacy must be front and center when it comes to negotiating around nuclear arms with Russia and other burgeoning nuclear powers."
Positive
0% Conservative
"Markey met Thursday at the Keedy School with Professor Matthew Bu, the James R. Schlesinger Professor of the Practice of Energy, National Security, and Foreign Policy, when the 76-year-old statesman and the professor shared their concerns over the ongoing war in Ukraine and the state of nuclear proliferation."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"Markey's talk comes almost a year into Russia's invasion of their Democratic neighbor Ukraine, making even talking about reducing proliferation hard, according to Bu."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"The greatest risk, that because of the lack of communications, is in the fog of war, we see an uecessary escalation in the use of nuclear weapons, Markey said."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"Climate change was also on the table where Markey said both that and nuclear arms are existential issues of our time."
Negative
-30% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : "We see a rise in the attention being paid and the desire for nuclear weapons obviously in Iran, in Saudi Arabia, in North Korea.

*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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