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Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin to retire after more than 4 decades in Congress

Apr 23, 2025 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -48% Medium Liberal

  • Reliability

    50% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    -50% Medium Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    30% 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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Overall Sentiment

11% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : "I truly love the job of being United State Senator, but in my heart, I know it's time to pass the torch," Durbin said in a social media video.
58% : Capitol News Illinois is a nonprofit, nonpartisan news service that distributes state government coverage to hundreds of news outlets statewide.

*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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