The Mercury News Article Rating

Trump blames Newsom for Southern California wildfires, governor's office pushes back on facts

  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

    75% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    5% 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.

Sentiments

Overall Sentiment

-11% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

35% : Though local officials haven't cited water supplies from the Delta as factors in the firefighting effort, California has long debated how to divide its limited water among its people, farms and fish, and Trump has a history of criticizing the amount the state devotes to protecting threatened fish populations.

*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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