The week in whoppers: WH press secretary's stunning ignorance, the...

Aug 05, 2022 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    58% Very Conservative

  • Reliability

    N/AN/A

  • Policy Leaning

    54% Very Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    68% 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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  •   Conservative
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"We say: Sorry, Senator -- the Dem plan you agreed to will cost companies $313 billion more in taxes (much of which will be passed along to workers and customers) and investment-fund managers another $14 billion."
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-16% Liberal
"We know how hard it can be for fact-checkers to keep coming up with new ways to defend the prez.[The Inflation Reduction Act] does not raise taxes.-- Sen. Joe Manchin, 7/31"
Negative
-24% Liberal
"While they may not be direct new taxes, the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation reported that more than half the tax hikes will fall on Americans making less than $400,000 per year, breaking a key Biden campaign vow."
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-36% Liberal
"We say: PolitiFact (USA Today, too) can argue that AOC's handcuff-free, non-custodial police escort to a shady area under a tree, with cameras rolling, was technically an arrest."
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0% Conservative
"While they may not be direct new taxes, the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation reported that more than half the tax hikes will fall on Americans making less than $400,000 per year, breaking a key Biden campaign vow."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"Video does not show Biden being distracted by music from an ice cream truck.-- Reuters, July 31We say: Glad to see Reuters setting the record straight on vital issues like whether President Biden was distracted by ice-cream-truck music."
Negative
-58% Liberal
"Video does not show Biden being distracted by music from an ice cream truck.-- Reuters, July 31We say: Glad to see Reuters setting the record straight on vital issues like whether President Biden was distracted by ice-cream-truck music."
Negative
-58% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : We say: Sorry, Senator -- the Dem plan you agreed to will cost companies $313 billion more in taxes (much of which will be passed along to workers and customers) and investment-fund managers another $14 billion.
38% : We know how hard it can be for "fact-checkers" to keep coming up with new ways to defend the prez."[The Inflation Reduction Act] does not raise taxes."-- Sen. Joe Manchin, 7/31
32% : While they may not be direct new taxes, the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation reported that more than half the tax hikes will fall on Americans making less than $400,000 per year, breaking a key Biden campaign vow.

*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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