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US Defense Secretary Hegseth shared war plans in second Signal chat, NYT reports

Apr 20, 2025 View Original Article
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    10% Center

  • Reliability

    20% ReliableLimited

  • Policy Leaning

    28% Somewhat Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -59% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Revelations of another use of Signal for classified information come as one of Hegseth's leading advisers, Dan Caldwell, was escorted from the Pentagon last week after being identified during an investigation into leaks at the Department of Defense, a U.S. official told Reuters.
13% : "We keep learning how Pete Hegseth put lives at risk," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a post to X. "But Trump is still too weak to fire him.

*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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