Al Jazeera Article Rating

Kenya: Presidential wildcard plans 4-day weeks, cannabis farms

Aug 08, 2022 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -90% Very Liberal

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  • Policy Leaning

    -22% Somewhat Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    -45% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% :"China in 2021 planted 169,000 acres of marijuana and made $1.2bn in returns," he added, referring to Kenya's top creditor.
53% :"The growing of marijuana ... will enable this country to pay its outstanding debts, and ensure Kenyans have enough money wherever they are so that we can sustain and arrest the [debt] situation," Wajackoyah said.
52% : "I think he is positioning himself as an international lobbyist for marijuana," said Mokua.
51% : "Who knows, I might be among the commercial farmers of bhang if my candidate is elected President and legalises marijuana," Mutua stated amid laughter within the court.
50% : And despite being a proponent of cannabis legalisation, he says he neither smokes nor drinks and is also a vegetarian.

*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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