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Health minister's assistant: Benefits recipients are "losers" who "deserve poverty"

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Mikko Talso took to Facebook to lash out at welfare benefits recipients.

Talso said he was responding to an opinion piece about bread lines in a western Finland newspaper.

Minister of Social Affairs and Health Kaisa Juuso described the post as "undeniably unpleasant and unsuccessful" Talso will remain in his job as parliamentary assistant to the Finns Party .

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65

Informative language

66

Neutral language

71

Article tone

semi-formal

Language

English

Language complexity

56

Offensive language

offensive

Hate speech

likely hateful

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not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

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short-lived

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