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Stanford implements hiring freeze amid concerns over cuts to funding

Feb 28, 2025 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -10% Center

  • Reliability

    70% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    -6% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -18% 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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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : RELATED: Trump administration cutting $4 billion in medical research funding: How Bay Area could be impacted The school's president and provost sent a letter Wednesday to announce that they were implementing the freeze.
49% : "Maybe it's an opportunity for Stanford to rethink, 'Okay, how do we make things maybe a bit leaner, or make the processes at the school work a lot better?'" Desai also said the university has engaged in politics, straying away from neutrality and in turn invited political and financial repercussions.

*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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