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The Courier Article Rating

Drug consumption rooms in Scotland green lit by country's top prosecutor

Sep 11, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

    40% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

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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:

45% : While the service would still be limited to some extent, due to the reserved Misuse of Drugs Act, we are confident it would save lives.
42% : While powers over the Misuse of Drugs Act are reserved to Westminster, the Lord Advocate is responsible for setting prosecution policy for all crimes.
38% : "The requested statement will not extend to any criminal offences other than possession of controlled substances, contrary to section 5(2) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971.

*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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