The Seattle Times Article Rating

Files from Aleppo intelligence facility show extent of Assad repression

  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

    25% ReliablePoor

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

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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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-7% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Instructions from the country's National Security Bureau were distributed to intelligence branches nationwide, the United Nations said, ordering them to "cleanse" each geographic sector of wanted people, before sending their interrogation notes "to all security branches so that they can be used in identifying and seriously pursuing new targets.
42% : After decades of dictatorship, they were instinctively avoiding political discussion even now, they said, before realizing that they would not be arrested for discussing who Assad's successor might be.

*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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