Orlando Sentinel Article Rating

Gaetz 'regularly' paid for sex, used drugs, House ethics panel report says

  • Bias Rating

    -50% Medium Liberal

  • Reliability

    65% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    -38% Somewhat Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    -38% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

27% : Gaetz resigned his seat in Congress last month to pursue the attorney general post.House investigators wrote that evidence showed Gaetz "regularly paid" women for sex from at least 2017 to 2020, engaged in sexual activity with a 17-year-old in 2017 and used or possessed illegal drugs, including cocaine and ecstasy, on multiple occasions.
24% : A House ethics panel found "substantial evidence" that former Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz had sex with a 17-year-old girl, used illegal drugs and paid thousands of dollars to women he met through disgraced Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg, according to an investigative report released Monday.
24% : Trump had picked Gaetz to become U.S. attorney general, but Gaetz withdrew his name from consideration while facing scrutiny from the ethics probe.

*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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