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News outlets were sent leaked Trump campaign files. They chose not to publish them

  • Bias Rating

    -66% Medium Liberal

  • Reliability

    75% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -24% 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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Bias Meter

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing, I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press," Trump said at a July 2016 news conference.
47% : Politico was also sent portions of a research document about Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who had been among the contenders to join Trump on the GOP ticket.
46% : ""I've been briefed, and a lot of people think it was Iran, probably was," Trump said in an interview with Univision.
31% : While Trump embraced the release of hacked files to embarrass his opponent, some believe the press went too far in its eager coverage of WikiLeaks' releases."News organizations should proceed with caution when dealing with hacked documents.
18% : Trump on Tuesday downplayed the significance of the hack, calling the materials "boring information.
1% : "During the 2016 campaign, then-presidential hopeful Trump publicly encouraged the hack and release of embarrassing emails about Clinton, which emerged shortly after a videotape showing Trump bragging about sexually assaulting women was unearthed.

*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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