Reuters Article Rating

Forensic technology aids Brazil's crackdown on illicit Amazon gold trade

  • Bias Rating

    -34% Somewhat Liberal

  • Reliability

    65% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    -34% Somewhat Liberal

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Bias Score Analysis

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13% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : A 2022 study by non-profit watchdog Instituto Escolhas found that 52% of the gold exported from the Amazon was illegal, nearly all from protected Indigenous reservation lands or national conservation parks.
50% : The embassy said it has set up a working group with other importing countries to study traceability and anti-counterfeiting tools.
43% : New Brazil central bank gold market regulations, including mandatory electronic tax receipts for all trades and tightened monitoring of suspect transactions, have also helped, according to Freire.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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