The Mercury News Article Rating

Half Moon Bay shooting labeled 'workplace violence,' suspected shooter's dark history comes to light

  • Bias Rating

    -80% Very Liberal

  • Reliability

    50% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    -18% Somewhat Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    -50% 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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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% :"Only in America, number one in gun ownership, number one in gun deaths -- it is not that complicated," said Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday from Half Moon Bay.
46% : On Tuesday, law enforcement officials described Zhao was a "disgruntled" employee, who showed up Monday with a semi-automatic pistol he purchased legally.

*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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