Audit Trail · Article #2486729

Man critically injured in shooting in central Surrey

Source article ↗ · Vancouver Sun · outlet lean: center-right · owner: Postmedia (corporate)

published 2026-11-03T16:20:31 · ingested 2026-11-03T11:53:37.744884

Bias Analysis · B.I.A.S.

CENTER score: -0.20 confidence: 85% vv3

The article presents factual information without overt bias, but the inclusion of a call to action for community members to provide information leans slightly towards community involvement rather than neutrality.

Trigger phrases: anyone who has informationcall the Surrey police non-emergency line

      computed at 2026-11-03T12:06:12.870726
    

ML Bias Signal · DistilBERT Zero-Shot (v2)

LEFT score: -0.317 confidence: 45% valhalla/distilbart-mnli-12-3

      computed at 2026-11-03T12:05:24.376908-05:00
    

Ensemble (heuristic + ML v2)

CENTER LEFT score: -0.317

Analysis Tier

Tier: quick_v1+full

Tier-1 at: 2026-11-03T12:06:12.870726

Tier-2 at: 2026-11-03T12:06:12.870726

AI analyzed: ✓ at 2026-11-03T12:06:12.870726

Geographic Extraction · L.O.C.A.L.

Country: CA

Province: BC

Scope: provincial

Fact-Check Claims · V.E.R.I.F.Y. (1)

unverified A 22-year-old shooting victim was found in hospital after a report of shots fired in the 9000-block of Snowdon Place on Monday night

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

        heuristic-v1 · 2026-11-03T11:53:37.760591
      

Cross-Outlet Cluster · I.N.K.

Man critically injured in Surrey, B.C., shooting overnight 2 articles across outlets

      clustered at 2026-11-03T11:23:47.357450
    

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)

2026-11-03T11:53:37.744884 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": 593
}

2026-11-03T12:05:24.376908 bias_v2_scored

payload

{
  "confidence": 0.452,
  "ensemble_band": "center-left",
  "ensemble_score": -0.317,
  "label": "left",
  "model": "valhalla/distilbart-mnli-12-3",
  "score": -0.317
}

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