Publishers Weekly Article Rating

After Hearing, Court Set to Decide Fate of Iowa LGBTQ Book Banning Law

Dec 23, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    54% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    70% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    66% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    2% Positive

Bias Score Analysis

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Overall Sentiment

17% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : In a July 29 opinion and order, judge Timothy Brooks preliminarily enjoined key provisions of Act 372, Arkansas's newly passed "harmful to minors" law, which would have exposed Arkansas librarians to criminal liability for making allegedly inappropriate books accessible to minors.
30% : And on August 31 a federal judge in Austin, Tex., preliminarily enjoined HB 900, that state's controversial "book rating" law.

*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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