Financial Times Article Rating

Australian regulator steps up greenwashing crackdown

Jan 07, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    20% Somewhat Conservative

  • Reliability

    45% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    -20% Somewhat Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

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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

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5% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : Mercer's Sustainable Plus fund was marketed as excluding fossil fuel companies, but nonetheless invested in carbon-intensive stocks including Glencore and BHP according to the regulator, as well as gambling and alcohol stocks, which were supposed to be excluded.
44% : She argued that enforcement measures mattered as investors looking for ethical investments had to rely on the product's claims and often did not have the capacity to test the veracity of those messages.
41% : ASIC alleges that the many funds and companies have failed to live up to their own ethical claims to exclude investments in fossil fuels, tobacco and gambling companies and in some cases Russian investments.

*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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