NBC Chicago Article Rating

Timeline: How the Jussie Smollett saga unfolded over nearly six years

Nov 21, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -4% Center

  • Reliability

    45% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    -24% Somewhat Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    -23% 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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-30% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : The opinion issued by five justices, with Chief Justice Mary Jane Theis and Justice Joy Cunningham abstaining, warned of "terrible policy consequences" of adopting prosecutors' stance on filing the charges again, and also echoed previous rulings that reversing course on non-prosecution agreements would "comport neither with ordinary contract principles nor with the more expansive notions of fundamental fairness that control the relations between a state and its citizens."

*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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