Washington Post Article RatingColumn | What we learned about Pete Hegseth in nearly five hours of questions
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10% Center
- Reliability
50% ReliableFair
- Policy Leaning
10% Center
- Politician Portrayal
-26% 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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- Conservative
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31% : Slotkin's query wasn't based on a hypothetical situation but rather precedent, as Trump made use of the military during the racial justice marches of 2021, when officers cleared Lafayette Square of peaceful protesters and flew helicopters low over others.24% : "He scooted around a pointed question from Elissa Slotkin, the newly elected Democratic senator from Michigan, a state Trump won, when she tried to get a sense of whether Hegseth would be willing to let loose the military on Americans if the incoming commander in chief ordered him to do so.
*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.