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Trump pardons imprisoned founder of Silk Road underground drug marketplace

Jan 22, 2025 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -6% Center

  • Reliability

    50% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -36% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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-11% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Trump had promised to help Ulbricht during the speech he gave to the Libertarian Party National Convention last May.
48% : "Trump has been eagerly using his pardon power since beginning his second term.
36% : Libertarian activists, who generally oppose criminal drug policies, have long believed that government investigators overreached in building their case against Silk Road.
16% : "Trump called Ulbricht's prison sentence "ridiculous".
7% : Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he has pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, an underground website for selling illegal drugs and other contraband goods like hacking equipment and stolen passports.

*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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