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RFK assassination files being released by Trump administration

Apr 18, 2025 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

    75% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    -4% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -39% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : " The records will be published with limited redactions for privacy reasons, such as to shield Social Security numbers, she said.
47% : Still, the case has drawn waves of public attention, as some critics -- including Robert F. Kennedy Jr. -- claim Sirhan didn't fire the fatal shots or other parties were involved in the killing.
42% : "Nearly 60 years after the tragic assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, the American people will, for the first time, have the opportunity to review the federal government's investigation thanks to the leadership of President Trump," Gabbard said in a statement.
27% : The disclosure -- ordered by President Trump within days of taking office and backed by the senator's son, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. -- could reignite speculation about the decades-old killing, as the younger Kennedy insists his father's convicted assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, might be innocent.

*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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