Washington Post Article Rating

Opinion | Social Security needs fixing. Fortunately, it doesn't have to be painful.

  • Bias Rating

    -40% Somewhat Liberal

  • Reliability

    80% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    4% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

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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:

52% : And all new state and local employees should be required to pay Social Security tax -- and receive the benefits -- though existing opt-outs for the small minority of state and local government workers who chose not to participate in Social Security should not be altered.

*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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