## During the course of this study, you will be shown images and paired text. Please look at the image and quickly skim through the paired text to get its gist. Use your knowledge of U.S. politics to answer the following questions.

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Does the image above meet any of the criteria listed below?

Not all images containing text or non-photographic content meet the criteria listed below. Please see this page for examples of images that you may think meet the text or non-photographic criteria, but actually do not.

Consists ENTIRELY or ALMOST ENTIRELY of text with no other content. Click here to view example images meeting this critera.
Is ENTIRELY or ALMOST ENTIRELY a non-photographic image (i.e. couldn't be taken with a camera). Examples include artistic works such as graphs, charts, logos, pictures of websites, social media posts, political cartoons, or any other illustrations. Click here to view example images meeting this critera.
Has other problems beyond those listed here which prevent viewing for its content (e.g. image is blank or all black, too blurry, etc.)
None of these criteria apply.

Does the IMAGE favor the left or right? Answer LEFT if you believe that the image would be published by a LEFT-LEANING source (or agreed with by someone on the left) and RIGHT if the image would be published by a RIGHT-LEANING source (or agreed with by someone on the right). If the political leaning is unclear, answer unclear / ambiguous.

LEFT
RIGHT
UNCLEAR / AMBIGUOUS

What features of this IMAGE would you use to predict its political leaning? Even if the political leaning of the image is unclear overall, what features of the image do you find most politically relevant? Select all that apply.

Features a known politician, celebrity, or any other person whom I associate with a political cause
Contains a closeup of a person, and this closeup portrays the person in a way that I associate with a political cause
Contains multiple people which are either partaking in some political action as a group or are portrayed as a group in a way which is otherwise politically meaningful
Contains no people, but the subject matter and content of the image is associated with a particular political position
Text within the image
Logos within the image (e.g. news channels logos, website logos, watermarks, etc.) which are politically relevant
Contains visual symbols (e.g. flags supporting a cause, memes, etc.) associated with a political cause
The image is blurry, unclear, distorted, or otherwise lacks any politically relevant content.

Please quickly scroll through the text to get its gist, then proceed to answer the questions below.

In a feature story on Antifa protesters who physically assault those they disagree with, CNN lays out the narrative that the leftist protesters are driven to violence in an effort to achieve peace. “On the morning of Donald Trump’s inauguration, Keval Bhatt hunted through a closet in his parents’ Virginia home for the darkest clothes he could find,” CNN reports. “The 19-year-old didn’t own much in black, the color he knew his fellow protesters would wear head to toe on the streets of Washington that day.” “I thought, there’s a very good chance that I might get arrested, that my whole life could be radically altered in a negative way if I kept driving, and I was really close to turning around,” Bhatt told CNN. “But I think the rationale is that even if it did negatively affect my life, I had still contributed to this movement that was necessary. I was still making an effort to make other people’s lives better, even if it made my life worse, and once I realized that, I had no regrets.” Bhatt, who was arrested, is used as an introduction to the people who identify as the Antifa movement, which CNN reports is not the same at the Democrats or other liberals who support them. Antifa, according to CNN, “has come to represent what experts who track these organizations call the ‘hard left’ — an ideology that runs afield of the Democratic Party platform and supports oppressed populations as it protests the amassing of wealth by corporations and elites.” CNN also speculates that Antifa is a grassroots organization that lacks central leadership, although it has been documented by Breitbart News that powerful Leftists, including George Soros, are funding protests and protesters. Describing those protesters as anti-Trump on “society’s fringe” – including illegal aliens and transgender people – they embrace violence. “Antifa leaders admit they’re willing to physically attack anyone who employs violence against them or who condones racism — as long as force is used in the name of eradicating hatred,” CNN reports. CNN also notes the connection between Antifa and Nazi Germany, even if the media outlet and many others characterize people who are targeted by Antifa as the ones with Nazi sympathies. “Anti-fascists and the black bloc tactic originated in Nazi Germany and resurfaced in United Kingdom in the 1980s. Large numbers of Antifa activists first appeared in the United States at anti-World Trade Organization protests in 1999 in Seattle, and then more recently during the Occupy Wall Street movement,” CNN reports. Citing their involvement in the riots in Berkeley, California, where Milo Yiannopoulos and Ann Coulter did not speak as planned because of violence, CNN reports that “white nationalists, neo-Nazis and others — who have been blamed for provoking violence at last week’s ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville, Virginia — claim it was Antifa groups that first got aggressive.” A woman was killed when a man drove his car into a crowd of counter-protesters in Virginia. CNN reports that Antifa members have been involved in violent clashes across the United States and around the world, including in Chicago, Philadelphia, Houston, Alabama, and Nebraska and at the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. “Antifa is impossible to track,” CNN reports, noting that “very few” were willing to take their masks off during interviews and that it took “months” to find those who would “share their stories.” CNN concludes that the people who Antifa targets describe themselves as “alt-right” and are inspired by Trump, who they say instigated violence during his presidential campaign by calling out protesters that showed up at his rallies. Atifa, according to CNN, claims their violence is “self-defense” against “hate speech” and people with whom they disagree. “It’s a position taken by many Antifa activists: ‘This is self-defense,'” CNN reports. “Antifa activists often don’t hesitate to destroy property, which many see as the incarnation of unfair wealth distribution” and “sometimes launch attacks against people who aren’t physically attacking them,” CNN admits. Scott Crow, a longtime Antifa member, said: “Don’t confuse legality and morality. Laws are made of governments, not of men,” quoting John Adams. “Each of us breaks the law every day,” Crow said. “It’s just that we make the conscious choice to do that.” CNN reports Antifa memebers use Facebook to organize their protests or counter protests and take martial arts classes and “strategize” on how to achieve their goal of “taking down fascists.” Members of a Portland-based Antifa group “don’t apologize” for the violence, according to CNN. “You have to put your body in the way,” the group’s leader said, “and you have to make it speak in the language that they understand. And sometimes that is violence.”

Does the text above meet any of the criteria listed below?

Consists mainly of symbols, URLs, dates, times, etc. and not actual textual content.
Consists of text, but is not text that would typically be found in a news article, blog post, or social media post (e.g. server error code text, text from a form asking to click accept, legal disclaimer text, filler text, etc.)
Has other problems beyond those listed here which prevent reading for its content (e.g. seems to be text mashed together from different articles with no coherent message, is text but is otherwise nonsensical and unreadable, etc.)
None of these criteria apply.

Are the image and text related to each other in some way? Answer YES if you believe the image could reasonably appear with this text in an article, blog post, or on social media. Answer NO if the image doesn't appear to have anything to do with the text.

YES
NO

Copy / paste the sentence(s), word or phrase from the text above into the box below which most strongly relates the text article to the image. Any text input in this box must appear in the text above. If you answered no to the question above and can't find anything in the article that seems to relate to the image, copy / paste the sentence(s), words, or phrase that captures the main idea of the text.

The remainder of the questions are about the IMAGE-TEXT pair. In response to questions from workers, we provide the following clarifications. If the image or text is clearly L/R, but one of them (image or text) is unclear, you should label the pair as the L/R label for the one that is clear. Try to treat the problem as if the image and text appeared in a news article or blog post together and you were trying to guess whether the person who posted it supported the left or right. Only if you can't decide on the overall politics of the pair should you mark it unclear. For topics, if the image and text are about different topics, mark all topics that apply to either.

Does the IMAGE-TEXT PAIR favor the left or right? Answer LEFT if you believe that the IMAGE-TEXT PAIR would be published by a LEFT-LEANING source (or agreed with by someone on the left) and RIGHT if the IMAGE-TEXT PAIR would be published by a RIGHT-LEANING source (or agreed with by someone on the right). If the political leaning is unclear, answer unclear / ambiguous.

LEFT
RIGHT
UNCLEAR / AMBIGUOUS

Which of the following political topics would you say best describes the Image-Text pair? Select all that apply.

Abortion Animal Rights Black Lives Matter Blue Lives Matter Border Security Climate Change Crime / Public Safety Election Interference Energy Foreign Policy Fracking Government Corruption Gun Control Healthcare Homelessness Immigration Inequality ISIS LGBT Minimum Wage Natural Disaster Racism Religion Taxes Terrorism Unemployment Vaccines War on Drugs Welfare Women's Rights Image-Text pair is not about any topic listed here.

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