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Drilling down on drones sightings above Long Island

  • Bias Rating

    -6% Center

  • Reliability

    40% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    -4% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    17% 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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9% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : As news spread of the early drone sightings, people who may not have previously scrutinized the night sky were primed to see more, he said: "Things that appear to be hovering, moving at unbelievable speeds, and in the context of these stories, the drone is the quickest, easiest, most available explanation." A Department of Defense official, speaking at the weekend briefing, said there was no "intelligence or observations that would indicate that they were aligned with a foreign actor or that they had malicious intent.
48% : Department of Defense officials have confirmed sightings by personnel at two military installations in New Jersey, Picatinny Arsenal and Naval Weapons Station Earle.

*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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