Washington Post Article Rating

Judge rejects unions' request to pause Trump administration firings

  • Bias Rating

    -8% Center

  • Reliability

    50% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -48% Negative

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

-19% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : About 60 to 70 percent of IRS's roughly 100,000 employees are deemed nonessential at any given time of year, and many of the estimated 15,000 probationary employees at the agency were hired with funds from the Inflation Reduction Act, which Congress passed in part to beef up tax enforcement, attorneys for the five unions said.
33% : That policy priority "would be thwarted" if Trump gets the green light to fire much of the agency's staff, the attorneys said.

*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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