Woman alleges in Post interviews that Graham Platner sexually assaulted her ⁠25%

By Liz Goodwin⁠0% Amy Brittain⁠0%

7/6/2026, 3:20:20 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 4 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Framing Effect, and Self-Serving Bias, with Unattributed Quote as the most egregious example at 49.2% saturation with 30 hits. Analysis detected 80 faulty-reasoning hits from 61 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 37.3% and a BS Rank of ⁠25% (16,494 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 75.40% of the article peer group.

A woman who said she previously dated Graham Platner, the 41-year-old ex-Marine and Democratic nominee in Maine for the U.S. 
Senate seat, alleged in interviews with The Washington Post that he sexually assaulted her in her home near the end of 2021. 
Platner called the allegations “troubling, serious, and false.” 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 4.2%The Washington Post: 3.8%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 1.5%The Washington Post: 1.3%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 9.5%The Washington Post: 4.9%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 2.6%The Washington Post: 1.0%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 1.5%The Washington Post: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 0.6%The Washington Post: 1.2%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 32.8%Liz Goodwin: 17.6%The Washington Post: 21.5%Framing Effect32.8%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 3.2%The Washington Post: 0.8%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.9%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 1.0%The Washington Post: 3.6%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 2.3%The Washington Post: 3.6%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 25.4%The Washington Post: 18.5%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 13.1%Liz Goodwin: 1.4%The Washington Post: 1.5%Self-Serving Bias13.1%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.9%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 2.0%The Washington Post: 2.2%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.8%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 3.1%The Washington Post: 2.1%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 1.4%The Washington Post: 0.4%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 0.8%The Washington Post: 2.4%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 3.0%The Washington Post: 1.0%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 3.4%The Washington Post: 0.9%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 36.1%Liz Goodwin: 3.2%The Washington Post: 5.2%Appeal to Authority36.1%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 0.6%The Washington Post: 1.5%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 0.0%The Washington Post: 1.0%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 8.1%The Washington Post: 5.9%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.5%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 7.6%The Washington Post: 6.3%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 0.0%The Washington Post: 1.0%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 0.8%The Washington Post: 4.5%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.2%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.6%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 15.7%The Washington Post: 1.9%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 0.0%The Washington Post: 2.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.2%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 49.2%Liz Goodwin: 3.4%The Washington Post: 4.8%Unattributed Quote49.2%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 2.0%The Washington Post: 2.5%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 10.5%The Washington Post: 15.2%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 0.0%The Washington Post: 2.0%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 0.0%The Washington Post: 3.6%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 0.0%The Washington Post: 1.4%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Liz Goodwin: 0.0%The Washington Post: 1.5%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

61 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker13%attributed speech53writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 11 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 20 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 22 words • 100.0% coverageGraham Platner • 8 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

Graham Platner

100%flagged-word coverage
8 attributed words100% of attributed speech79% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Unattributed Quote+58.5 ptsWriter: 41.5%Graham Platner: 100.0%100.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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