Audit Trail · Article #1698357

Edmonton police investigating suspicious death of teen

Source article ↗ · Global News · outlet lean: center · owner: Corus Entertainment (corporate)

published 2026-08-17T16:57:31 · ingested 2026-08-17T17:40:52.104516

Bias Analysis · B.I.A.S.

CENTER score: 0.85 confidence: 100% vv3

The article does not contain any explicit bias or opinion towards the subject of the death. It presents factual information about the investigation and reports on the incident.

      computed at 2026-08-18T08:46:37.996768
    

ML Bias Signal · DistilBERT Zero-Shot (v2)

LEFT score: -0.249 confidence: 36% valhalla/distilbart-mnli-12-3

      computed at 2026-08-17T15:08:41.105465-04:00
    

Ensemble (heuristic + ML v2)

CENTER score: -0.124

Analysis Tier

Tier: pending

Tier-1 at: —

Tier-2 at: —

AI analyzed: ✓ at 2026-08-18T08:46:37.996768

Geographic Extraction · L.O.C.A.L.

Country: CA

Province: AB

Scope: provincial

Fact-Check Claims · V.E.R.I.F.Y. (2)

true Homicide investigators have been called in to investigate the suspicious death of a 16-year-old girl in northeast Edmonton early Sunday morning.

Rule-based: source_credibility=True, has_stat=True, hedged=False

        heuristic-v1 · 2026-08-17T17:40:52.704233
      

unverified No verifiable claims detected.

        fact_v1 · 2026-08-17T17:52:54.143984
      

Cross-Outlet Cluster · I.N.K.

Edmonton police investigating suspicious death of teen 2 articles across outlets

      clustered at 2026-08-17T17:40:52.376433
    

Governance — C.R.E.E.D.

A+

overall grade

100.0

By Category

Accountability {'events': 0, 'grade': 'A+', 'note': 'no events recorded', 'provisional': True, 'score': 100.0}

Environmental {'events': 0, 'grade': 'A+', 'note': 'no events recorded', 'provisional': True, 'score': 100.0}

Fairness {'events': 3, 'grade': 'A+', 'note': 'below minimum volume (3 events; minimum 100 for a non-provisional score)', 'provisional': True, 'score': 100.0}

Privacy {'events': 0, 'grade': 'A+', 'note': 'no events recorded', 'provisional': True, 'score': 100.0}

Safety {'events': 0, 'grade': 'A+', 'note': 'no events recorded', 'provisional': True, 'score': 100.0}

Transparency {'events': 0, 'grade': 'A+', 'note': 'no events recorded', 'provisional': True, 'score': 100.0}

Ethics audit by C.R.E.E.D. Institute · 3 events tracked

Raw Audit Trail (2 events)

2026-08-17T17:40:52.104516 ingested

payload

{
  "bias": {
    "band": "center",
    "heuristic_version": "v3",
    "rationale": "triggers: none \u2014 defaulted center",
    "score": 0.0
  },
  "source_id": 4
}

2026-08-17T19:08:41.105465 bias_v2_scored

payload

{
  "confidence": 0.356,
  "ensemble_band": "center",
  "ensemble_score": -0.124,
  "label": "left",
  "model": "valhalla/distilbart-mnli-12-3",
  "score": -0.249
}

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