NBC News⁠30%

U.S. military says 2 service members killed in Jordan by Iranian attacks ⁠8%

By NBCNews.com⁠19%

7/18/2026, 10:43:06 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 2 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 52% saturation with 26 hits. Analysis detected 38 faulty-reasoning hits from 50 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 25.3% and a BS Rank of ⁠8% (18,769 of 20,382 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 92.10% of the article peer group.

Two U.S. service members were killed Friday while defending against an Iranian ballistic missile and drone attack in Jordan, and another service member is missing, U.S. 
Central Command said Saturday. 
NBC News’ Keir Simmons and Julie Tsirkin report. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 2.4%NBC News: 1.9%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.2%NBC News: 0.7%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 1.4%NBC News: 2.9%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.8%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.6%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 1.3%NBC News: 1.8%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 52.0%NBCNews.com: 5.6%NBC News: 6.1%Framing Effect52.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.2%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.3%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.5%NBC News: 1.9%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.1%NBC News: 1.3%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 24.0%NBCNews.com: 5.7%NBC News: 7.0%Negativity Bias24.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 1.4%NBC News: 1.2%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.2%NBC News: 0.7%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 2.7%NBC News: 1.5%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.2%NBC News: 0.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.3%NBC News: 4.3%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.3%NBC News: 0.3%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 1.0%NBC News: 1.4%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.5%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.9%NBC News: 0.6%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.9%NBC News: 0.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.5%NBC News: 2.8%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 1.1%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 1.3%NBC News: 0.5%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 2.7%NBC News: 3.1%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.6%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 1.6%NBC News: 5.2%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.3%NBC News: 0.7%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.7%NBC News: 2.0%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.3%NBC News: 0.5%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.2%NBC News: 1.6%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.6%NBC News: 1.5%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.5%NBC News: 1.4%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.2%NBC News: 1.2%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 3.1%NBC News: 4.3%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.3%NBC News: 1.1%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.4%NBC News: 0.5%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.5%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

50 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker8.0%attributed speech46writer words
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Writer's voice • 12 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 26 words • 0.0% coverageU.S. Central Command • 4 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 0.0% coverage
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U.S. Central Command

0%flagged-word coverage
4 attributed words100% of attributed speech83% writer coverage

No manipulation-pattern hits were found in this speaker's attributed words or the writer's voice.

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

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Analysis

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