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The Seattle Times Article Rating

Trump pardons founder of Silk Road website

  • Bias Rating

    -12% Somewhat Liberal

  • Reliability

    30% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    N/A

  • Politician Portrayal

    -25% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. 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.

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Overall Sentiment

11% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : Trump posted on Truth Social, his social media website, that he had spoken to Ulbricht's mother on his first full day in office.
38% : " He had promised to help Ulbricht during a speech at the Libertarian Party National Convention last May. Libertarian activists, who generally oppose criminal drug policies, have long believed that government investigators overreached in building their case against Silk Road.
17% : " Trump called Ulbricht's prison sentence "ridiculous.

*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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