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Pete Hegseth: Fox TV personality picked to lead Pentagon

  • Bias Rating

    -8% Center

  • Reliability

    30% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    14% Somewhat Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -39% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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19% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

73% : Trump hailed Hegseth as "tough, smart and a true believer in America First" in a social media post announcing the nomination.
34% : "Clearly Trump wants someone who is loyal to him" and who "does not have an independent political base.
28% : He also reportedly lobbied Trump in 2019 to intervene in three war crimes cases, leading to pardons in two murder cases and the reinstatement of the rank of a third service member who was convicted for posing for a photo with a body in Iraq.

*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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