Audit Trail · Article #601624

Man killed by polar bear 'died a hero,' cousin says - CBC

Source article ↗ · CBC North · outlet lean: center · owner: CBC/Radio-Canada (public)

published 2018-07-05T07:00:00 · ingested 2026-06-15T15:47:12.050890

Bias Analysis · B.I.A.S.

CENTER score: 0.00 vv3

triggers: none — defaulted center

      computed at 2026-06-15T15:47:12.050890
    

ML Bias Signal · DistilBERT Zero-Shot (v2)

ML scoring pending — backlog worker processes ~50 articles per ingest cycle.

Analysis Tier

Tier: quick_v1

Tier-1 at: 2026-06-15T16:02:55.525955

Tier-2 at: —

AI analyzed: ✓ at 2026-06-15T16:02:55.621955

Geographic Extraction · L.O.C.A.L.

Country: CA

Province: —

Scope: national

Fact-Check Claims · V.E.R.I.F.Y. (0)

No claims extracted yet.

Cross-Outlet Cluster · I.N.K.

Man killed by polar bear 'died a hero,' cousin says - CBC 1 article across outlets

      clustered at 2026-06-15T15:47:12.197818
    

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': 1, 'grade': 'A+', 'note': 'below minimum volume (1 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 · 1 events tracked

Raw Audit Trail (1 event)

2026-06-15T15:47:12.050890 ingested

payload

{
  "bias": {
    "band": "center",
    "heuristic_version": "v3",
    "rationale": "triggers: none \u2014 defaulted center",
    "score": 0.0
  },
  "source_id": 14334
}

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