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BBC Article Rating

Trump pardons Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht

Jan 22, 2025 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -46% Medium Liberal

  • Reliability

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  • Policy Leaning

    -50% Medium Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    -57% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Overall Sentiment

-31% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : Trump posted on his Truth Social platform that he had called Ulbricht's mother to inform her that he had granted a pardon to her son.
32% : Silk Road, which was shut down in 2013 after police arrested Ulbricht, sold illegal drugs using the virtual currency Bitcoin, as well as hacking equipment and stolen passports.
29% : US President Donald Trump says he has signed a full and unconditional pardon for Ross Ulbricht, who operated Silk Road, the deep web marketplace where illegal drugs were sold.

*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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