Police report reveals assault allegations against Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump's pick for defense secretary

  • Bias Rating

    -6% Center

  • Reliability

    50% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -64% 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.

Sentiments

Overall Sentiment

-30% Negative

  •   Conservative
SentenceSentimentBias
Unlock this feature by upgrading to the Pro plan.

Bias Meter

Extremely
Liberal

Very
Liberal

Moderately
Liberal

Somewhat Liberal

Center

Somewhat Conservative

Moderately
Conservative

Very
Conservative

Extremely
Conservative

-100%
Liberal

100%
Conservative

Bias Meter

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : Hegseth, who joined Fox News as a contributor in 2014 before becoming co-host of "Fox & Friends Weekend," left the network after Trump announced his intention to nominate him.
23% : The real reason Trump picked a sex fiend, dog killer, and anti-vaxxer for his cabinetA spokeswoman for the Trump transition said early Thursday that the "report corroborates what Mr. Hegseth's attorneys have said all along: the incident was fully investigated and no charges were filed because police found the allegations to be false.
22% : Hegseth, a former Fox News personality and President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be defense secretary, told police at the time that the encounter had been consensual and denied any wrongdoing, the report said." READ MORE: Who has Trump picked for his cabinet and administration so far?

*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.

Copy link