The Mercury News Article Rating

Whitmer kidnap plotter Croft sentenced to almost 20 years

Dec 28, 2022 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -38% Somewhat Liberal

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  • Policy Leaning

    -38% Somewhat Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    -4% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Croft discussed using his grenade launcher and a mounted machine gun to thwart law enforcement response to the scene as a part in the kidnapping plot, jurors heard at trial.
42% : Croft has long been known to law enforcement for his extreme anti-government views.
40% : Barry Croft Jr. has long been known to law enforcement for his extreme anti-government viewsBarry Croft Jr. was part of a plan to kidnap the Democratic governor from her summer home in 2020 and practiced detonating explosives in preparation, prosecutors have said.

*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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