Phillip Jackson

Phillip Jackson is a reporter on HuffPost's national desk covering social justice. Before this, he worked as a criminal justice reporter with the Baltimore Sun, as well as in Memphis and Philadelphia covering policing. His primary topics of coverage include police interactions with civilians and issues of social justice. Phillip can be reached at phillip.jackson@huffpost.com or on Twitter at @phillej_.

Biography:  https://www.huffpost.com/author/phillip-jackson

86%

The overall score is a weighted number that takes into account conflict of interest, bias, deception and other practices that undermines the credibility of the source. It is calculated as:
Analysis.OverallConflictOfInterestScore * 0.3F + Analysis.OverallBiasScore * 0.3F + Analysis.DeceptivenessScore * 0.3F + Analysis.ReadabilityScore * 0.1F

A score that takes into consideration the content for flow, interruptions with ads, and overt search engine optimization techniques that makes the content hard to understand

The Daily's Verdict

This author has a mixed reputation for journalistic standards. It is advisable to fact-check, scrutinize for bias, and check for conflicts of interest before relying on the author's reporting.

Bias

90%

Examples:

  • Phillip Jackson is a reporter on HuffPost's national desk covering social justice. Before this, he worked as a criminal justice reporter with the Baltimore Sun, as well as in Memphis and Philadelphia covering policing.

Conflicts of Interest

100%

Examples:

  • Phillip Jackson worked as a criminal justice reporter with the Baltimore Sun, as well as in Memphis and Philadelphia covering policing.

Contradictions

86%

Examples:

  • Deputy disputed claims from the victim’s family that he had gone to the wrong apartment
  • No sound from within the apartment indicates a violent argument of the type described by the woman in the video was occurring when the deputy arrived.
  • The deputy had been sent to the wrong apartment, but this claim was called false by Okaloosa County Sheriff Eric Aden.

Deceptions

65%

Examples:

  • The Florida sheriff released body camera footage on Thursday showing a deputy fatally shooting Roger Fortson, a Black active-duty airman, inside his own apartment.

Recent Articles

53-Year-Old Black Man Dies After Officer Kneels on His Back in Canton, Ohio: Bodycam Footage Released

53-Year-Old Black Man Dies After Officer Kneels on His Back in Canton, Ohio: Bodycam Footage Released

Broke On: Thursday, 18 April 2024 On April 18, in Canton, Ohio, 53-year-old Black man Frank Tyson died after an officer knelt on his back during an arrest for shearing off an electrical pole. Officers found him unresponsive at a veterans club following the incident.