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The rise - and potential fall - of TikTok in the US - WTOP News

Jan 18, 2025 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    22% Somewhat Conservative

  • Reliability

    65% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    16% Somewhat Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -1% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Trump, who is set to return to the White House the day after the ban takes effect, has credited TikTok with helping him win the support of more young voters in last year's election.
45% : During his first term in office, Trump issued executive orders in 2020 banning TikTok and the Chinese messaging app WeChat, moves that courts subsequently blocked.
40% : Later that year, criticism against the platform increased in volume among Republicans in Washington who claimed the platform amplified pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel content, an accusation the company vigorously denied.

*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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