Musk's Starlink Was Not Connected to Vote Tabulation, Contrary to Online Claims - FactCheck.org
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8% Center
- Reliability
85% ReliableGood
- Policy Leaning
20% Somewhat Conservative
- Politician Portrayal
-14% Negative
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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:
68% : Swing state voters went Dem downballot but Trump at the top?56% : Trump not only won the electoral college, but he is ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris in the popular vote by about 2.6 million votes, as of Nov. 18.
55% : "Trump wins the White House in a political comeback rooted in appeals to frustrated voters."
54% : Trump said the new department would "provide advice and guidance from outside of Government," CNN reported.
49% : Elon Musk and the US gov. sent Starlink terminals to Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia due to the hurricanes."Another social media user said, "Trump cheats at everything in life.
45% : Musk & Trump talk to Putin a lot.
40% : Musk, CEO of SpaceX, endorsed Trump, who announced on Nov. 12 that Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, a 2024 Republican presidential candidate, would lead what Trump is calling the Department of Government Efficiency.
37% : We debunked a similar conspiracy theory that a secret supercomputer and accompanying software program were used to switch votes from Trump to President-elect Joe Biden in 2020.
26% : The social media posts have falsely claimed that Musk, Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin conspired to rig the election in Trump's favor by using Starlink to systematically switch votes across swing states.
*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.