Nate Silver

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

These are the articles the algorithm found, out of more than 40K stories, were the most favorable toward Biden. It's just totally random. Lots of stories about the stock market. Many have nothing to do with Biden at all ("Haiti President Assassinated At Home, Wife Wounded"). 2/ https://t.co/ubKvmvaMHi — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 6, 2021

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

To this good thread explaining why the "sentiment analysis" cited in the @milbank WaPo article this weekend is complete crap—the analysis was used to make the claim that the press is just negative toward Biden as Trump—I'll also add a couple of comments based on their data. 1/ — PolitiTweet.org

This is the original WaPo trash piece about whether Biden gets more negative coverage than Trump. Let me explain wh… https://t.co/N3wycr14oK

Posted Dec. 6, 2021

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

What's probably happening here is that words like "high" and "rise" are viewed as favorable by the algorithm, even if they're taken completely out of context (e.g. "higher taxes" or "stock futures rise"). 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 6, 2021