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Washington Post Editor Quits After Billionaire Bezos Orders Staff to Defend "Free Market" Capitalism

  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

    70% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -59% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, a frequent critic of the Trump administration, noted that Bezos was one of three billionaires -- the others being Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg -- to stand near Trump at his inauguration last month, describing the trio as oligarchs.
39% : " Lyz Lenz, journalist and manager of the "Men Yell at Me" newsletter, denounced Bezos's new policy of promoting unfettered capitalism.
32% : "He has decided that, as timid and tepid as the editorials have been, they've been too tough on Trump.
23% : He's basically fearful of Trump," Baron said.
18% : " "Trump's going to get pissed off over the news pages," Baron said.

*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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