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Trump pardons Silk Road dark web market creator Ross Ulbricht - RocketNews

Jan 22, 2025 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -36% Somewhat Liberal

  • Reliability

    45% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    -26% Somewhat Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    -61% Negative

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-42% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : Trump posted on his Truth Social platform that he had called Ulbricht's mother to inform her that he had granted a pardon to her son.
23% : US President Donald Trump says he has signed a full and unconditional pardon for Ross Ulbricht, who operated Silk Road, the dark web marketplace where illegal drugs were sold.
11% : Silk Road, which was shut down in 2013 after police arrested Ulbricht, sold illegal drugs using Bitcoin, as well as hacking equipment and stolen passports."The scum that worked to convict him were some of the same lunatics who were involved in the modern day weaponization of government against me," Trump said in his post online on Tuesday evening.

*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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