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Who Is Ross Ulbricht? What To Know About 'Silk Road' Drug Marketplace Founder Pardoned By Trump.

Jan 22, 2025 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -10% Center

  • Reliability

    75% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    8% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -61% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

37% : Trump appeared to appeal to libertarian voters while speaking at the Libertarian National Convention in May 2024, saying he would pardon Ulbricht "if you vote for me."
35% : The Silk Road was an online marketplace where more than 100,000 users traded illegal drugs and other illegal goods while laundering hundreds of millions of dollars, according to the Justice Department.
27% : Trump announced on Truth Social he pardoned Ulbricht, who was held in a high-security prison in Florence, Colorado, saying the "scum that worked to convict [Ulbricht]" are the "same lunatics who were involved in the modern-day weaponization of government against me."

*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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