Financial Times Article Rating

South Africa's ANC makes billion-dollar pledges ahead of election

May 27, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -6% Center

  • Reliability

    50% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    -6% 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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4% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Peter Attard Montalto, managing director of the Krutham consultancy, said the health insurance and basic income grant, were they to be implemented as planned, could cost at least an extra R320bn ($17bn) a year, which could only be funded by hefty tax increases.

*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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