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The Observer view on Uganda's anti-gay laws: grotesque, legalised bigotry | Observer editorial

Jun 04, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -18% Somewhat Liberal

  • Reliability

    80% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    -34% Somewhat Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    26% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : Vote-fixing and fraud have marred successive elections, according to the UK, EU and US.
41% : Yoweri Museveni has introduced the death penalty for homosexual acts, but his legislation threatens more than the people it demonisesUganda is one of the youngest and fastest growing countries in the world.
39% : Yet the extent to which this anachronistic figure is out of time and out of date is vividly underscored by his latest, most grotesque excess: last week's adoption of the world's harshest anti-LGBTQ+ law, which imposes the death penalty or life imprisonment for certain homosexual acts.

*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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