DOJ urges states to join investigation into major oil companies ⁠57%

By OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart⁠0%

7/3/2026, 12:04:39 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 17 faulty reasoning types, including Confirmation Bias, Appeal to Emotion, and Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, with Burden of Proof as the most egregious example at 27.7% saturation with 52 hits. Analysis detected 426 faulty-reasoning hits from 188 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 54.3% and a BS Rank of ⁠57% (9,161 of 21,198 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 56.80% of the article peer group.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) are urging states to join a sweeping probe into major oil companies. 
In a joint three-page letter sent to state attorneys general on Friday, federal antitrust regulators called for localized investigations into oil distributors for potential price-fixing, market monopolization and consumer fraud. 
Federal antitrust lawyers are asking states to deploy all tools available, as they believe several companies are keeping prices high despite a steep drop in wholesale crude costs. 
The coordinated federal-state push comes on the heels of an executive directive from President Donald Trump last week. 
On Monday evening, the president accused oil corporations of “gouging” American drivers. 
“Gasoline Retailers must get their Prices down, IMMEDIATELY! 
They’re too high considering that Oil is now at $68 a Barrel, and heading south,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. 
“The Retailers must quickly react to this statement, and so what they know is right — DROP YOUR PRICE FOR OUR GREAT AMERICAN PEOPLE!” 
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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 25.5%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 13.8%One America News Network: 4.6%Confirmation Bias25.5%This article: 10.6%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 8.0%One America News Network: 2.4%Anchoring Bias10.6%This article: 0.0%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 0.0%One America News Network: 3.9%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 0.0%One America News Network: 1.1%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 0.0%One America News Network: 0.9%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 4.3%One America News Network: 2.9%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 12.8%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 7.6%One America News Network: 15.3%Framing Effect12.8%This article: 0.0%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 0.0%One America News Network: 1.0%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 0.0%One America News Network: 1.1%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 0.0%One America News Network: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 5.3%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 1.3%One America News Network: 4.3%Optimism Bias5.3%This article: 4.3%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 1.1%One America News Network: 1.8%Pessimism Bias4.3%This article: 6.4%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 4.8%One America News Network: 11.8%Negativity Bias6.4%This article: 0.0%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 0.0%One America News Network: 3.2%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 0.0%One America News Network: 1.7%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 0.0%One America News Network: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 3.2%One America News Network: 3.9%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 0.0%One America News Network: 1.9%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 0.0%One America News Network: 5.3%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 0.0%One America News Network: 0.4%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 0.0%One America News Network: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 9.6%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 2.4%One America News Network: 2.0%Recency Bias9.6%This article: 0.0%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 0.0%One America News Network: 0.7%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 0.0%One America News Network: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 0.0%One America News Network: 2.5%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 0.0%One America News Network: 0.6%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 0.0%One America News Network: 6.3%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 1.1%One America News Network: 1.8%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 0.0%One America News Network: 1.1%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 0.0%One America News Network: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 3.7%One America News Network: 5.4%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 0.0%One America News Network: 0.5%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 0.0%One America News Network: 1.1%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 23.4%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 16.0%One America News Network: 10.0%Appeal to Emotion23.4%This article: 10.6%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 5.9%One America News Network: 1.7%Begging the Question10.6%This article: 9.6%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 2.4%One America News Network: 3.0%Post Hoc (False Cause)9.6%This article: 0.0%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 0.0%One America News Network: 0.2%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 27.7%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 6.9%One America News Network: 0.6%Burden of Proof27.7%This article: 0.0%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 0.0%One America News Network: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 0.0%One America News Network: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 0.0%One America News Network: 1.6%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 0.0%One America News Network: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 6.4%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 1.6%One America News Network: 1.4%Ambiguity (Equivocation)6.4%This article: 0.0%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 0.0%One America News Network: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 0.0%One America News Network: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 0.0%One America News Network: 0.2%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 0.0%One America News Network: 0.3%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 0.0%One America News Network: 0.7%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 6.4%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 1.6%One America News Network: 1.7%Unattributed Quote6.4%This article: 17.0%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 5.9%One America News Network: 1.5%Quote-first Misdirection17.0%This article: 12.2%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 3.1%One America News Network: 5.2%Biased Writer Voice12.2%This article: 18.1%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 13.3%One America News Network: 1.1%Indoctrination18.1%This article: 0.0%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 0.0%One America News Network: 0.4%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 0.0%One America News Network: 3.8%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 20.7%OAN Staff Sylvia Stewart: 10.6%One America News Network: 1.5%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…20.7%

188 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker34%attributed speech124writer words
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Writer's voice • 10 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 23 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 30 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 28 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 18 words • 0.0% coverageDonald Trump • 12 words • 100.0% coverageDonald Trump • 8 words • 100.0% coverageDonald Trump • 20 words • 100.0% coverageDonald Trump • 24 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 2 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 3 words • 100.0% coverage
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Donald Trump

100%flagged-word coverage
64 attributed words100% of attributed speech68% writer coverage
0%25.0%50.0%Quote-first Misdirection+50.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%Donald Trump: 50.0%50.0%Indoctrination+48.4 ptsWriter: 1.6%Donald Trump: 50.0%50.0%Attempt to Sell a Product +25.4 ptsWriter: 12.1%Donald Trump: 37.5%37.5%Unattributed Quote+18.8 ptsWriter: 0.0%Donald Trump: 18.8%18.8%Biased Writer Voice-18.5 ptsWriter: 18.5%Donald Trump: 0.0%0.0%

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

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Analysis

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