Audit Trail · Article #491876

Former LTC chair to run for city council - CTV News

Source article ↗ · CTV News · outlet lean: center · owner: Bell Media (corporate)

published 2026-06-10T22:38:21 · ingested 2026-06-11T01:35:28.258548

Bias Analysis · B.I.A.S.

CENTER score: 0.50 confidence: 90% vv3

The article does not provide biased information or opinions, it simply reports on a former LTC chair running for city council.

      computed at 2026-06-11T02:00:26.996453
    

ML Bias Signal · DistilBERT Zero-Shot (v2)

RIGHT score: 0.290 confidence: 41% valhalla/distilbart-mnli-12-3

      computed at 2026-06-10T23:53:19.404570-04:00
    

Ensemble (heuristic + ML v2)

CENTER RIGHT score: 0.395

Analysis Tier

Tier: pending

Tier-1 at: —

Tier-2 at: —

AI analyzed: ✓ at 2026-06-11T02:00:26.996453

Geographic Extraction · L.O.C.A.L.

Country: CA

Province: ON

Scope: municipal

Fact-Check Claims · V.E.R.I.F.Y. (2)

unverified No verifiable claims detected.

        fact_v1 · 2026-06-11T02:05:20.045728
      

unverified No verifiable claims detected.

        fact_v1 · 2026-06-11T02:37:21.527500
      

Cross-Outlet Cluster · I.N.K.

Former LTC chair to run for city council - CTV News 1 article across outlets

      clustered at 2026-06-11T01:35:28.402098
    

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)

2026-06-11T01:35:28.258548 ingested

payload

{
  "bias": {
    "band": "center",
    "heuristic_version": "v3",
    "rationale": "triggers: none \u2014 defaulted center",
    "score": 0.0
  },
  "source_id": 485
}

2026-06-11T03:53:19.404570 bias_v2_scored

payload

{
  "confidence": 0.414,
  "ensemble_band": "center-right",
  "ensemble_score": 0.395,
  "label": "right",
  "model": "valhalla/distilbart-mnli-12-3",
  "score": 0.29
}

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