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Newsom says California wildfires will be one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history

Jan 12, 2025 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

    65% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    8% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    7% 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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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

81% : "President of the United States, Donald Trump, to his credit, was helpful in getting the Olympics to the United States of America, to get it down here in L.A.
69% : "And to the extent that we can work with the same relationship and that same spirit with Donald Trump, I hope we can.
20% : Trump is "somehow connecting the delta smelt to this fire, which is inexcusable because it's inaccurate.
16% : Also, incomprehensible to anyone that understands water policy in the state," Newsom said Saturday. He also blasted Trump for spreading other disinformation about the wildfires.

*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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