The Seattle Times Article Rating

Hong Kong activist Jimmy Lai denies he asked a newspaper colleague to draft list of sanction targets

  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

    20% ReliablePoor

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -60% 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

-33% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

33% : On Wednesday, asked how he thought Trump could help, Lai said "a call to China, a call to Xi Jinping, whatever," referring to the Chinese president.
26% : He said his newspaper would not be able to survive under the law but he never communicated with Trump.
18% : The court also heard Lai had reminded his staff working on international news not to go against Trump in 2020 when they were hoping Trump would do something to stop the national security 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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