Financial Times Article Rating

Donald Trump pardons founder of Silk Road drugs site

Jan 22, 2025 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    Center

  • Reliability

    40% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    18% Somewhat Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -32% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

77% : Announcing the pardon, Trump said it was "in honour of the Libertarian Movement, which supported me so strongly".
36% : Trump had pledged to pardon Ulbricht, who was arrested in 2013, at Libertarian political party's national convention last May.
23% : "The scum that worked to convict him [Ulbricht] were some of the same lunatics who were involved in the modern day weaponisation of government against me," Trump wrote in post on Truth Social late on Tuesday.
9% : Donald Trump has pardoned Ross Ulbricht, who was sentenced to life in prison in 2015 for masterminding an online marketplace for illegal drugs and hacking services.

*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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