What The Fact · Tech
Home Dashboard Transparency API ← Consumer site
Audit Trail · Article #2422714

One more year: Jacobs’ Olympic curling champions are back, and they’re not done winning yet

Source article ↗ · Calgary Herald · outlet lean: center-right · owner: Postmedia (corporate)
published 2026-10-27T21:55:05 · ingested 2026-10-27T18:39:50.993757
Bias Analysis · B.I.A.S.
CENTER-LEFT score: -0.20 confidence: 80% vv3
The article focuses on the personal lives and motivations of the curling team members, potentially presenting a slightly more empathetic perspective.
Trigger phrases: Ben Hebert despite having nothing left to provekids growing up in a life away from the rinkkeeping his options open
computed at 2026-10-27T18:39:50.993757
ML Bias Signal · DistilBERT Zero-Shot (v2)
RIGHT score: 0.257 confidence: 37% valhalla/distilbart-mnli-12-3
computed at 2026-10-27T18:52:58.502914-04:00
Ensemble (heuristic + ML v2)
CENTER RIGHT score: 0.257
Analysis Tier
Tier: quick_v1+full
Tier-1 at: 2026-10-27T19:43:03.544179
Tier-2 at: 2026-10-27T20:06:37.512395
AI analyzed: ✓ at 2026-10-27T19:43:03.544179
Geographic Extraction · L.O.C.A.L.
Country: CA
Province: AB
Scope: provincial
Fact-Check Claims · V.E.R.I.F.Y. (3)
true Brad Jacobs and his Olympic champion rink are back for another season.
The article explicitly states that the team is returning for another year.
E.C.H.O. · 2026-10-27T20:06:37.512395
true Team members have no long-term commitments to another Olympic cycle.
Hebert's statement about signing one-year deals is directly quoted in the article.
E.C.H.O. · 2026-10-27T20:06:37.512395
true The team won Olympic gold for Canada.
This is a factual statement supported by the provided context and imagery.
E.C.H.O. · 2026-10-27T20:06:37.512395
Cross-Outlet Cluster · I.N.K.
One more year: Jacobs’ Olympic curling champions are back, and they’re not done winning yet 1 article across outlets
clustered at 2026-10-27T18:39:51.002644
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)
  1. 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": 13757
}
  2. bias_v2_scored
    payload 
    {
  "confidence": 0.368,
  "ensemble_band": "center-right",
  "ensemble_score": 0.257,
  "label": "right",
  "model": "valhalla/distilbart-mnli-12-3",
  "score": 0.257
}
Every signal computed about this article, with timestamps. Source for the transparency promise behind our methodology.