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UNLV shooter wrote about Zodiac killer, missing Malaysia Airlines flight and conspiracy theories

Dec 07, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -6% Center

  • Reliability

    50% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    N/A

  • Politician Portrayal

    24% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : The shooter was identified as Anthony Polito, 67, law enforcement sources with knowledge of the investigation said.
40% : One day after a mass shooting at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, left three people and the gunman dead, a picture emerged of a quiet, lonesome academic with obsessive tendencies who was upset by being rejected for a position at the university, according to law enforcement sources, neighbors and the man's personal website.
40% : " He concluded: "So I am not a dumb guy!" In another essay, about the Malaysia Airlines flight that went missing with 239 people aboard in 2014, Polito wrote baselessly that "government/media disinformation was dispersed to suppress public realization that MH370 had been hijacked" in order "to suppress the actual location of the wreckage.

*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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