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Revealed: assistant attorney general in Alaska posted racist and antisemitic tweets

Jul 22, 2021 View Original Article
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    -26% Somewhat Liberal

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  • Policy Leaning

    -24% Somewhat Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    34% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

41% : The account also regularly denied the reality of anti-Black racism, attacked Black public figures and showed an extraordinary hostility towards anti-racist protesters associated with the Black Lives Matter movement.
40% : Online, Cicotte, under the moniker J Reuben Clark and the Twitter handle @JReubenCIark, has expressed extreme positions on race, criminal justice and religion.
36% : On 16 August 2019, he tweeted: "People who encourage a kid to think he's a different sex than what he is (including parents) go to jail for child abuse", adding that "people who perform or abet sex change operations on kids get the death penalty."
29% : Since-deleted tweets archived by anti-fascists reveal that he advocated various extreme positions including the summary imprisonment of Black Lives Matter protesters; vigilante violence against leftwing groups; and a punishment of execution for acts including performing gender reassignment surgery.

*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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