CNBC Article Rating

Jeff Bezos orders Washington Post opinion pages to support 'personal liberties and free markets'; top editor resigns

  • Bias Rating

    2% Center

  • Reliability

    55% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -34% 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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21% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : (L-R) Lauren Sanchez, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk attend the inauguration ceremony before Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th US President in the US Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder and owner of the Washington Post, said Wednesday that his newspaper's opinion pages would now be dedicated to supporting "personal liberties and free markets," and that the organization would not publish opposing views.
34% : " Less than two weeks before the 2024 presidential election between the Republican Trump and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, the Post announced that it would not endorse either candidate, breaking with decades of recent precedent.

*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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