Washington Post Article Rating

Analysis | Biden's pardon of Hunter: A flip-flop or a lie?

  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

    85% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -21% 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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Overall Sentiment

22% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

41% : In this passage, Biden makes a nod to possible additional prosecution under Trump.
31% : On Jan. 3, 2020, two weeks after Trump was impeached, Attorney General William P. Barr tasked Scott Brady, a U.S. attorney in western Pennsylvania, with vetting material regarding Biden and Ukraine -- some of it supplied by Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani -- for possible distribution to prosecutors who could use a grand jury to investigate further.
27% : The GOP effort paralleled a House Democratic effort to impeach Trump for his efforts to convince the Ukrainian government to investigate Biden.
22% : At worst, the president lied when it was politically expedient to draw a contrast with Trump, who routinely denounced the Justice Department's criminal cases against him as politically motivated.
11% : Trump at the time posted on social media: "Weiss is a COWARD, a smaller version of Bill Barr, who never had the courage to do what everyone knows should have been done.

*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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