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Far-right Idaho candidates bring election lies, misinformation to Tuesday's primary ballot

May 19, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    6% Center

  • Reliability

    95% ReliableExcellent

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -33% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Henry told the Statesman she is running to focus on government transparency.
52% : "If you want me to answer any questions, it will have to be live and recorded because you're wasting my time," he said in an email.
42% : Far-right lawmakers have endorsed fringe views and proposed passing a range of bills, like ones to outlaw COVID-19 vaccines, limit same-sex marriage or pursue the phantom of growing cannibalism.
33% : "Bell has also been endorsed by Michael Flynn, Trump's former national security adviser, who has embraced the QAnon conspiracy theory and amplified a message in 2020 calling on Trump to invoke martial law to hold a new election.

*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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