Audit Trail · Article #2413367

St. John’s doctor says more, increasingly serious e-scooter injuries are being seen

Source article ↗ · SaltWire Network · outlet lean: center · owner: Postmedia (ex-SaltWire, 2024) (corporate)

published 2026-10-26T10:39:26 · ingested 2026-10-26T06:52:17.082551

Bias Analysis · B.I.A.S.

CENTER score: -0.50 vv3

The article presents a balanced view by including the perspective of an emergency medicine physician and referencing other health organizations, but leans slightly towards a precautionary stance.

Trigger phrases: emergency medicine physicianincrease in accidentsprohibited from using these vehicles entirely

      computed at 2026-10-26T07:04:44.182082
    

ML Bias Signal · DistilBERT Zero-Shot (v2)

RIGHT score: 0.276 confidence: 39% valhalla/distilbart-mnli-12-3

      computed at 2026-10-26T06:57:31.334372-04:00
    

Ensemble (heuristic + ML v2)

CENTER RIGHT score: 0.276

Analysis Tier

Tier: quick_v1+full

Tier-1 at: 2026-10-26T07:04:44.182082

Tier-2 at: 2026-10-26T07:04:44.182082

AI analyzed: ✓ at 2026-10-26T07:04:44.182082

Geographic Extraction · L.O.C.A.L.

Country: CA

Province: NS

Scope: provincial

Fact-Check Claims · V.E.R.I.F.Y. (1)

unverified No verifiable claims detected.

        fact_v1 · 2026-10-26T07:04:54.276793
      

Cross-Outlet Cluster · I.N.K.

St. John’s doctor says more, increasingly serious e-scooter injuries are being seen 1 article across outlets

      clustered at 2026-10-26T06:52:17.091398
    

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)

2026-10-26T06:52:17.082551 ingested

payload

{
  "bias": {
    "band": "center",
    "heuristic_version": "v3",
    "rationale": "triggers: none \u2014 NO SIGNAL DETECTED (not a centrist finding)",
    "score": 0.0,
    "signal_detected": false
  },
  "source_id": 13771
}

2026-10-26T06:57:31.334372 bias_v2_scored

payload

{
  "confidence": 0.394,
  "ensemble_band": "center-right",
  "ensemble_score": 0.276,
  "label": "right",
  "model": "valhalla/distilbart-mnli-12-3",
  "score": 0.276
}

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