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Why Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of dark web market Silk Road

Jan 23, 2025 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    8% Center

  • Reliability

    5% ReliableLimited

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    18% 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

33% Positive

  •   Conservative
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

34% : President Trump made good on a campaign promise made to libertarians to pardon Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, who received two life sentences in 2015 for creating and operating the infamous dark web marketplace that traded drugs, guns and illegal 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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