ABC News Pays $15 Million To Settle Donald Trump's Defamation Suit
- Bias Rating
72% Very Conservative
- Reliability
40% ReliableFair
- Policy Leaning
94% Very Conservative
- Politician Portrayal
-63% Negative
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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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-45% Negative
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
42% : Trump denounced the verdict, saying it was a "continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time."37% : ABC News and anchor George Stephanopoulos have reached a settlement with Donald Trump, according to court filings on Saturday, after the president-elect sued the network for on-air claims by Stephanopoulos, who incorrectly said during an interview earlier this year that a jury found Trump liable for raping E. Jean Carroll.
28% : A judge refused to dismiss the case in July, reportedly saying the case would focus on whether it was "substantially true" a jury found Trump liable for rape, despite the jury's verdict "expressly finding" he was not liable for rape.
28% : Carroll alleged that Trump raped her in the mid-1990s, first accusing the then-president in 2019 before filing an assault claim in 2022.
21% : Trump filed his lawsuit against ABC News and Stephanopoulos and claimed the network broadcast statements by the anchor that were "false, intentional, malicious and designed to cause harm," filings say.
20% : Following a two-week trial, New York jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse but unanimously rejected Carroll's claim that he raped her.
14% : Trump denied Carroll's claims, at one point saying she was "not my type," which Carroll later said contributed to her defamation.
*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.