The Seattle Times Article Rating

Elon Musk spent over $250 million to help elect Trump

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    10% Center

  • Reliability

    25% ReliablePoor

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -31% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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52% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : One of Musk's most brazen moves -- which emerged only Thursday -- was spending $20 million to prop up a super political action committee that was named after Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the late liberal Supreme Court justice, but that sought to help Trump by softening his anti-abortion positions.
37% : Musk, who originally wanted to keep his support for Trump quiet, may have also funded dark-money entities that will never disclose his involvement or donations.
27% : "The effort by RBG PAC was meant to reassure female voters who were wary of Trump because of his opposition to abortion rights.
25% : Musk came to see defeating President Joe Biden as a vital imperative and swung hard toward Trump after the assassination attempt against him in July.
25% : On Thursday, Musk was revealed as the hidden funding source behind RBG PAC, a Republican group that worked to elect Trump but was named after a liberal jurist who despised him.
17% : "Great Minds Think Alike," read the text on the super PAC's website, featuring twin large photos of Trump and Ginsburg, who died in 2020.

*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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