Financial Times Article Rating

'The magician': Riad Salameh and the plundering of Lebanon

Aug 20, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -6% Center

  • Reliability

    55% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    -6% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -30% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : At that point more than two-thirds of Lebanese bank deposits were invested with the state, according to Joan Chaker, an expert on Lebanon's economic history, and the rates of return were abnormally high: annual payments on outstanding public debt constituted more than a third of total government expenditure annually.

*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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