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Trump says he'll task Elon Musk with auditing the entire federal government

  • Bias Rating

    -6% Center

  • Reliability

    70% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    -12% Somewhat Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    38% Positive

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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34% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : "Trump says the commission comes "at the suggestion" of the billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, who previously showed his interest in such a role during an interview with Trump on X. Last month, Musk also posted what appears to be an AI-generated image of himself at a podium labeled "Department of Government Efficiency.
52% : During a speech in New York on Thursday, Trump said the new efficiency commission would conduct a "complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government" and make recommendations for "drastic reforms.
37% : As we noted after Musk endorsed Trump in July, that came despite the former president's support of a plan to roll back the Biden administration's Inflation Reduction Act.

*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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