The Boston Globe Article Rating

What do marijuana, the death penalty and fracking have in common? Harris shifted positions on them. - The Boston Globe

Aug 16, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

    25% ReliablePoor

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -41% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : In addition to reversing course on fracking and cash bail, Harris has changed tack on issues including health care (she supported a plan to eliminate private health insurance before she opposed it), immigration and gun control.
33% : "The trouble for Republicans, to put it lightly" is Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, "do not come to this issue with spotless records.
24% : Instead, a campaign spokesman leaned into her credentials as a San Francisco district attorney and California attorney general to attack Trump.
16% : Trump has a well-documented record of falsehoods, shifting positions and outright lies.

*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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