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2-fingered man caught with largest cache of homemade pipe bombs in FBI history

  • Bias Rating

    -8% Center

  • Reliability

    45% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    -16% Somewhat Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    16% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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-32% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Federal attorneys, who noted that Spafford had expressed anti-government views and used a picture of President Biden for target practice at a local shooting range, said the defendant "poses an extreme danger to the community.""Even after losing his own fingers as a result of his homemade explosive materials, he made the apparent remarkable decision to keep an extraordinarily dangerous explosive material in the home's freezer next to food items that could be accessed by the entire family," prosecutors argued in an attempt to keep him jailed.

*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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