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How Elon Musk turned X into a pro-Trump echo chamber

Oct 31, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    8% Center

  • Reliability

    75% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    2% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -19% 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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Overall Sentiment

35% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : "We're very rigorous on the X platform about being a fair playing field, a level playing field, being fair to all sides," he said this month at a town hall event in Pennsylvania hosted by America PAC which has repeatedly backed Trump in ads.
50% : And when the news involves Trump, he said, a handful of right-leaning accounts tend to dominate.
48% : UW researchers found that, in the three days after the July 13 assassination attempt on Trump, nine right-wing "newsbroker" accounts accumulated 1.2 million reposts, while nine traditional news outlets gathered 98,064 reposts -- or one-twelfth the engagement -- even though the news outlets have larger followings and adhere to journalistic standards based in factual reporting.
35% : He hosted Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' GOP primary bid announcement and reversed a ban on political advertising, clearing the way for campaign ads, including ads from Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an independent who now supports Trump.

*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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