East Bay Times Article Rating

Protesters escalate stakes, traffic impacts with shutdown of Bay Bridge during APEC summit

  • Bias Rating

    -16% Somewhat Liberal

  • Reliability

    40% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    -26% Somewhat Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    13% Positive

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : He said the scale of the disruption caused by Thursday's protests -- as well as other protests elsewhere in the Bay Area, and ongoing anti-Semitic speech and attacks he said were related -- reflected poorly on the message that protesters had tried to send.
58% : The massive gathering has attracted demonstrators for myriad causes as nearly two dozen heads of state -- including President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping -- meet for San Francisco's largest gathering of world leaders since World War II.

*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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