Media Political Bias Classification

A DistilBERT-based classifier for predicting political bias in news text. Labels follow the AllSides categories: Left, Lean Left, Center, Lean Right, Right.

Model Description

  • Fine-tuned on articles from the All The News dataset.
  • Each article’s source was mapped to its political-bias rating using the AllSides chart.
  • Data was cleaned, balanced, and used to fine-tune DistilBERT.
  • Outputs one of five bias classes: Left, Lean Left, Center, Lean Right, Right.

Usage

Run/Checkout main.py

Intended Use

Input any news article or excerpt. Model returns the predicted political bias category.

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