The Guardian view on European migration policy: a cruel, myopic shambles | Editorial

Jan 14, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -14% Somewhat Liberal

  • Reliability

    70% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    -14% Somewhat Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

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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.

Sentiments

Overall Sentiment

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  •   Liberal
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"In the Arctic town of Kiruna, the first meeting convened by the six-month Swedish presidency of the European Union has just taken place."
Positive
14% Conservative
"Santos, in this telling, had an uncay, Forrest Gump-like biographical coection to these momentous historical moments, his own life changing at just the same moments that challenged the identity of the nation."
Positive
14% Conservative
"But if you take his fictional biography as a whole, it's clear that Santos was appealing to particular American longings."
Positive
10% Conservative
"On the campaign trail, Santos presented himself as the embodiment of 20th century-style American upward mobility."
Positive
10% Conservative
"And of course, there were the remarkable historical coincidences, the tendency of Santos to claim his own life intersected with moments of crisis for the American conscience."
Positive
6% Conservative
"In that sense, Santos is the politician that we deserve."
Positive
4% Conservative
"What could Santos possibly have to gain, for instance, by claiming, as he apparently did to a local Republican party leader, to have been a college volleyball champion?"
Positive
2% Conservative
"On the campaign trail, ruing in the heavily Jewish third district of New York, on suburban Long Island, Santos claimed that he was a member of the Jewish community, and descended from Ukrainian refugees."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"It seems that he used this proximity to tragedy to some effect in his fundraising; among the several investigations into Santos, there is now one related to campaign expenditures, and the curious way that money seemed to disappear from his account in amounts just beneath the federal reporting threshold where a receipt would be required."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"It's not hard to see why this fiction appealed to Santos, and why it appealed to his voters."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"Anyone who assesses America with clear eyes knows that Goldman Sachs traders don't come, as Santos says he did, from basement apartments in Jackson Heights, Queens."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"But it would be a mistake to think that George Santos's pathologies are his alone."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"Santos's fellow New York Republicans are trying to distance themselves from the congressman, calling on him to resign in the hopes that it will help their own re-election chances."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"The congressman's many lies are the product of a political system that incentivizes dishonesty and punishes sincerityIt's hard to keep track of what, exactly, the newly elected Republican congressman George Santos has said about his own life."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"At times like this, it's hard to take Santos's dishonesty seriously."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"Perhaps Santos's real sin is not in lying, but in telling the wrong lies."
Negative
-32% Liberal
"Because with his boldness and deception, his shamelessness and alleged comfort with financial malfeasance, Santos, with all his lies, seems to reveal an uncomfortable truth about American politics, emphasizing what the politics writer John Ganz called the reign of crime."
Negative
-42% Liberal
"Are Santos's lies, after all, any more far-fetched than Trump's claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him via a vast, undetected conspiracy?"
Negative
-64% Liberal
"Are Santos's lies, after all, any more far-fetched than Trump's claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him via a vast, undetected conspiracy?"
Negative
-64% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : In the Arctic town of Kiruna, the first meeting convened by the six-month Swedish presidency of the European Union has just taken place.

*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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