The Autocrat Next Door

  • Bias Rating

    -98% Extremely Liberal

  • Reliability

    85% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    80% 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.

Sentiments

Overall Sentiment

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  •   Conservative
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"Read: Why Americans are turning against free trade"
Positive
38% Conservative
"López Obrador acquired a college education and started a career in local politics."
Positive
26% Conservative
"If Mexico helped control illegal immigration and agreed to use fewer Chinese components in the autos it shipped north, Trump was happy to look the other way as López Obrador dismantled Mexican democratic institutions."
Positive
16% Conservative
"Instead, he has financed his new social ambitions by squeezing older ones, especially law enforcement, and health- and day-care services."
Positive
12% Conservative
"Mexican labor law makes it almost impossible to fire workers at firms that pay taxes in the formal economy."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"He restated his admiration for Trump just a couple of weeks ago: I hold President Trump in high esteem because he was respectful to us ..."
Positive
48% Conservative
"He restated his admiration for Trump just a couple of weeks ago: I hold President Trump in high esteem because he was respectful to us ..."
Positive
48% Conservative
"If Mexico helped control illegal immigration and agreed to use fewer Chinese components in the autos it shipped north, Trump was happy to look the other way as Lu00f3pez Obrador dismantled Mexican democratic institutions."
Positive
6% Conservative
"So President Joe Biden declared in his 2023 State of the Union address."
Positive
10% Conservative
"Mostly, though, Biden has followed Trump's line on Mexico."
Positive
6% Conservative
"Mostly, though, Biden has followed Trump's line on Mexico."
Positive
6% Conservative
"But the warning alarm is sounding on Biden's watch."
Positive
4% Conservative
"He poured his energies into a new political movement, one built entirely around him: Morena -- a complicated name that is both an acronym for the party's formal name, the Movement for National Regeneration, and an invocation of Mexico's protector, the dark-skied Virgin of Guadalupe, who is sometimes nicknamed La Morena, meaning the brown one.Like Trump in the United States, Lu00f3pez Obrador was finally swept to power less by his personal appeal than by a broader crisis of the political system."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"Former President Donald Trump took a highly transactional approach to Mexico."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"Days before President Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrived in Mexico City for a trilateral summit with Lu00f3pez Obrador in early January, cartel criminals assaulted the Culiacan airport, one of the 10 largest in Mexico."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"Read: The world leader backing Trump's state of denial"
Negative
-28% Liberal
"Perhaps the Biden administration has concluded that trying to uphold Mexican democracy and liberalism will be a waste of time, given how bleak the outlook is for both."
Negative
-34% Liberal
"The Biden administration has asked rather more of Lu00f3pez Obrador than Trump did -- enough to irritate the Mexican president."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"The Biden administration has asked rather more of Lu00f3pez Obrador than Trump did -- enough to irritate the Mexican president."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"David Frum: Biden has a border problemThen, in September 2014, the Peu00f1a Nieto administration was shaken by scandal and horror: 43 young male students at a rural teachers' college in the state of Guerrero went missing."
Negative
-44% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

69% : Read: Why Americans are turning against free trade
63% : López Obrador acquired a college education and started a career in local politics.
58% : If Mexico helped control illegal immigration and agreed to use fewer Chinese components in the autos it shipped north, Trump was happy to look the other way as López Obrador dismantled Mexican democratic institutions.
56% : Instead, he has financed his new social ambitions by squeezing older ones, especially law enforcement, and health- and day-care services.
46% : Mexican labor law makes it almost impossible to fire workers at firms that pay taxes in the formal economy.

*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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