Political Neutrality Rule

It is the classification model intentionally avoiding labeling statements supporting or opposing a specific political figure, party, or ideology.

The goal of MagPunk is not to say that a news item is politically right or wrong. The model does not take sides in political texts and does not make implications like ‘this news is biased’ or ‘this news is objective’. The app’s job is solely to make technical (low quality) or statistical (negative) measurements.

Example: The model not stamping an ideological label even though newspapers with two different views present the same political news differently.

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By its nature, partisanship in political texts is highly open to interpretation. The reason MagPunk adopts this constraint is that it is impossible to fact-check political debates. The goal of the app is not to answer the question ‘who is right’, but to measure information structurally. Whether the political statement in a news item is provocative can only be weighed by the reader themselves with their critical mind. MagPunk firmly refuses to assume the role of referee in this debate.