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The Detroit News Article Rating

Michigan pays residents for blood, urine samples to study chemical exposure

Apr 13, 2025 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    24% Somewhat Conservative

  • Reliability

    60% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    38% Somewhat Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    20% 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.

Sentiments

Overall Sentiment

18% Positive

  •   Conservative
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

40% : Biomonitoring efforts The state of Michigan has received two tranches of money from the CDC to monitor residents' exposure to toxic chemicals through the MiCheM program.
40% : The department also conducted testing in 2003 on dioxin exposure in the Tittabawassee River flood plain, and took up long-term monitoring between 1975 and 2001 to track residents' exposure to polybrominated biphenyl (PBB) flame retardants that had been accidentally mixed with cattle feed.

*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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