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The Trace
U.S. center-left (gun-violence-focused nonprofit newsroom)
The Trace is a nonprofit newsroom that covers guns and gun violence in the U.S. It is independent of any parent company. Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun-control advocacy group, helped start it and has kept funding it. Its recent coverage of the Trump administration's loosening of federal gun rules is mostly skeptical, though it is built on data and records.
Owned byIndependent 501(c)(3) nonprofit, The Trace Inc. It has no parent company or individual owner. It was started in 2015 with seed money from Everytown for Gun Safety's support fund and the Joyce Foundation.
LeaningU.S. center-left (gun-violence-focused nonprofit newsroom)
On the administrationbroadly critical
4.7average bias score across 3 stories
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun