The Guardian Article Rating

Pardoned January 6 rioter faces unresolved charges of soliciting a minor

  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

    65% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    15% 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

-39% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

28% : Among the decision's most prominent critics was the US's largest police union, which endorsed Trump over Harris, a former prosecutor.
27% : At the center of the case in question is Andrew Taake, 36, of Houston, Texas, who assailed police with bear spray and a metal whip when a mob of Trump supporters descended on the Capitol in early 2021 in a desperate attempt to keep him in office at the end of his first presidency, according to prosecutors.
13% : Trump gave blanket pardons or commutations to 1,500 people charged or convicted in the attack on Congress after he lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden.
10% : After retaking the White House by defeating the former vice-president Kamala Harris in November's election, Trump has faced bipartisan criticism for his decision to pardon people who attacked law enforcement officers on the day of the Capitol insurrection.

*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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