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New York Post Article Rating

Calm down, the MTA won't collapse without congestion pricing

Jun 09, 2024 View Original Article
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    Center

  • Reliability

    35% ReliableAverage

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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.

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : When the governor's office floated an idea to replace congestion-pricing funds with another tax -- increasing an existing MTA tax on downstate payrolls -- suddenly, last week, socialists in the Legislature found they were staunch Reaganite anti-taxers.
50% : So there is time for lawmakers to do what they've never done, from signing the congestion-pricing law with zero scrutiny of the details in 2019, to awarding the agency $1.5 billion in annual tax revenues a decade previously in a late-night "emergency.

*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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