The Boston Globe Article Rating

Theodore Olson, conservative lawyer who backed marriage equality, dies at 84 - The Boston Globe

Nov 13, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    20% Somewhat Conservative

  • Reliability

    30% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    2% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -26% 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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21% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : "Mr. Olson successfully defended school vouchers, the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools, and the bipartisan 2002 McCain-Feingold Act regulating political campaign financing.
51% : Mr. Olson said he considered his greatest legal legacy to be his role in invalidating California's Proposition 8, a referendum banning same-sex marriage that had passed in 2008 with 52 percent of the vote after the state's Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage.

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