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Biden says Trump “Can’t stop violence because for years he’s formented it”
In a speech on Monday, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden pushed back against President Trump’s campaign message that voters wouldn’t be safe under his administration. While left-leaning articles highlight that Biden’s address deflected criticism that Trump has leveled against him, right-leaning articles highlight that Biden condemned lawlessness in America.
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How do we calculate bias?
It is difficult to exactly identify the bias of a news source as there is no comparable observed metric of left versus right leaning. In the absence of such a metric, we use the published methodology of Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse Shapiro’s in Econometrica (2010), a top economics journal (henceforth Gentzkow et al) to identify the leaning of a news source.
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