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ABC News Settles Donald Trump's Defamation Suit for $15 Million

Dec 14, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    26% Somewhat Conservative

  • Reliability

    70% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    48% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -21% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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-11% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

38% : "Trump sued ABC and Stephanopoulos after the "This Week" host said the president-elect was found liable for raping journalist and author E. Jean Carroll during an interview on March 10.
32% : This settlement comes one day after Trump was ordered by Federal Judge Lisette M. Reid to sit for a deposition next week in relation to the defamation lawsuit, according to the New York Times.
29% : José de la Torre, Actor From Netflix Series 'Toy Boy,' Dies at 37 3 days agoABC News has agreed to pay $15 million and issue a statement of apology to settle the defamation lawsuit brought against George Stephanopoulos and the network by Donald Trump after the anchor inaccurately stated that the president-elect was liable for rape.

*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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