AlterNet Article RatingRon DeSantis tries to blame immigrants for his state's COVID surge -- then gets debunked
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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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| "Therefore -- When the Biden administration discusses implementing vaccine passports for legal immigrants and tourists coming to our country, but allows the free movement of illegal immigrants through the border and around the country (especially to Florida, which 70" | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "DeSantis' remarks echo the words of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Fox News' Sean Haity." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Over the last week, the Republican governor has taken aim at the (CDC), President Joe Biden, his administration, and even immigrants." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "No elected official is doing more to enable the transmission of COVID in America than Joe Biden with his open borders policies." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Joe Biden has the nerve to tell me to get out of the way on COVID while he lets COVID-infected migrants pour over our southern border by the hundreds of thousands, DeSantis previously said." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "If President Biden was serious about shutting down the virus as he promised, his open border policies do not make any sense." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is attempting to shift the blame for his state's alarming uptick in COVID cases" | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "Therefore -- When the Biden administration discusses implementing vaccine passports for legal immigrants and tourists coming to our country, but allows the free movement of illegal immigrants through the border and around the country (especially to Florida, which 70" | Negative | -12% Liberal |
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33% : Therefore -- When the Biden administration discusses implementing vaccine passports for legal immigrants and tourists coming to our country, but allows the free movement of illegal immigrants through the border and around the country (especially to Florida, which 70% of migrants detained and interviewed by our state law enforcement assisting with border security in Texas reported as their final destination) without any mitigation measures, that is hypocritical.*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.