The Guardian Article Rating

Thursday briefing: What Boris Johnson did - and did not - reveal at his Covid inquiry grilling

  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

    55% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    38% 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.

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-33% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Now he was in Congress pushing policies such as making the AR-15 rifle the national gun of America.
47% : He also said that he did not oscillate on key decisions in the run-up to the first lockdown, despite what his former adviser Dominic Cummings has previously said, insisting that he was just considering all the different arguments on both sides to work out the best course of action.
34% : Rebutting Hugo Keith KC's suggestion that the mud-slinging and "friction in government was causing a problem", Johnsons said that if Tony Blair or Margaret Thatcher's staff had had WhatsApp, their exchanges would have been "pretty fruity".

*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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