Voice of America Article Rating

Southwest Iran's Water Shortage Protests Take Sharper Anti-government Tone

Jul 21, 2021 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    6% Center

  • Reliability

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  • Policy Leaning

    48% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    20% 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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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : A group of prominent Iranian rights activists, including Narges Mohammadi, held a rally in front of Iran's interior ministry in Tehran on Tuesday to express solidarity with the Khuzestan protesters.
44% : Iran has barred VOA from reporting inside the country.
42% : The head of New York's Center for Human Rights in Iran, Hadi Ghaemi appealed to the United Nations in a statement Monday to "forcefully call upon Iranian authorities to allow people to air their grievances without threats of violence or imprisonment."
41% : Since then, videos have appeared to show the protests continuing on a nightly basis, marking what would be the widest and most sustained disturbances Iran has seen in months.

*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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