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Bangor Daily News Article Rating

Chicago's air quality some of the worst in the world due to smoke from Canadian wildfires

  • Bias Rating

    -8% Center

  • Reliability

    55% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    -10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    8% Positive

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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55% : Michigan's Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy on Tuesday issued an air quality alert for the entire state, while in Chicago -- where the air quality has been categorized "unhealthy" by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency -- officials are urging young people, older adults and residents with health issues to spend more time indoors.

*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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