The Guardian Article Rating

Incarcerated Californians can't vote. A prison held an election anyway

  • Bias Rating

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    80% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -34% 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

-30% Negative

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Bias Meter

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : "Nate Venegas, 47, said he, too, favored Trump because "our system needs somebody who's not a politician".
40% : Trump hasn't given me anything that he plans to do, except lock down the borders.
32% : "Jaime Joseph Jaramillo, 53, said he supported Trump, appreciating his promise of mass deportations to "get rid of the drug cartels" and favoring him on foreign policy: "I want him to bomb Iran and drill, drill, drill."
28% : Despite those misgivings, he couldn't stomach supporting Trump: "Since he's been in politics, he's been courting racist white people who think that people who aren't white are taking their country.
20% : He thinks Trump could be more swayed on prison reform, citing the former president's decision to pardon a woman's drug offense after lobbying by Kim Kardashian while he was in office.
19% : But he also called Trump a "clown" and said he disliked his vigorous support of capital punishment: "I don't believe there should be a death penalty.

*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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