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Trump Picks Sean Duffy for US Transportation Secretary

  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

    80% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    -22% Somewhat Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    31% Positive

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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11% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

84% : In a statement released Monday afternoon, Trump called Duffy a "tremendous and well-liked public servant" who started his political career as Ashland County's District attorney.
66% : "As recently as Sunday, Duffy had praised Trump on Fox Business, talking about what he saw as the challenges of running federal agencies.
19% : In May 2016, at a time when many in the Wisconsin GOP were still critical of Trump, Duffy was one of the only Republicans to mention Trump by name at the annual state Republican Party Convention.

*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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