The Slow Death of Journalism, with Matt Taibbi ⁠79%

By Eli Lake⁠93%

7/23/2026, 2:00:51 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 7 faulty reasoning types, including Bandwagon, Biased Writer Voice, and Unattributed Quote, with Hasty Generalization as the most egregious example at 33.8% saturation with 24 hits. Analysis detected 125 faulty-reasoning hits from 71 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 70% and a BS Rank of ⁠79% (4,769 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 78.20% of the article peer group.

When Alex Jones was removed from every major platform in a single coordinated sweep in 2018, most of the press cheered and moved on. 
Matt Taibbi didn’t. 
He wanted to know who made the call, how it was coordinated, and what it meant for everyone who wasn’t Alex Jones. 
That curiosity eventually led him to the Twitter Files and a yearslong investigation in… 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 12.2%The FP: 5.8%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 0.0%The FP: 0.9%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 1.9%The FP: 4.1%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 0.0%The FP: 1.8%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 0.0%The FP: 1.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 0.0%The FP: 1.5%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 4.2%Eli Lake: 19.2%The FP: 9.5%Framing Effect4.2%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 0.0%The FP: 0.5%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 1.4%The FP: 0.5%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 0.0%The FP: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 0.0%The FP: 1.3%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 19.7%Eli Lake: 0.9%The FP: 1.6%Pessimism Bias19.7%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 18.1%The FP: 10.8%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 5.2%The FP: 1.4%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 7.8%The FP: 1.3%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 0.0%The FP: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 1.5%The FP: 1.9%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 1.5%The FP: 1.2%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 0.0%The FP: 1.9%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 4.7%The FP: 0.4%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 0.0%The FP: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 3.3%The FP: 2.1%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 0.0%The FP: 1.1%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 0.0%The FP: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 22.2%The FP: 2.3%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 0.0%The FP: 1.0%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 5.4%The FP: 3.2%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 0.0%The FP: 2.5%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 0.0%The FP: 1.1%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 0.0%The FP: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 33.8%Eli Lake: 10.8%The FP: 8.9%Hasty Generalization33.8%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 0.0%The FP: 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 33.8%Eli Lake: 1.5%The FP: 1.2%Bandwagon33.8%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 4.8%The FP: 5.8%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 3.0%The FP: 1.5%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 19.7%Eli Lake: 0.9%The FP: 2.7%Post Hoc (False Cause)19.7%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 1.4%The FP: 0.2%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 0.0%The FP: 0.6%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 0.0%The FP: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 0.0%The FP: 0.4%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 3.3%The FP: 3.2%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 0.0%The FP: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 4.7%The FP: 2.1%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 0.0%The FP: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 0.0%The FP: 0.2%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 0.0%The FP: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 0.0%The FP: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 3.3%The FP: 0.3%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 31.0%Eli Lake: 4.7%The FP: 2.5%Unattributed Quote31.0%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 2.6%The FP: 1.9%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 33.8%Eli Lake: 28.3%The FP: 15.0%Biased Writer Voice33.8%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 2.6%The FP: 2.8%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 0.0%The FP: 0.5%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 16.8%The FP: 3.0%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Eli Lake: 5.9%The FP: 4.6%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

71 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker31%attributed speech49writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 8 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 24 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 3 words • 0.0% coverageMatt Taibbi • 22 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 14 words • 0.0% coverage
Selected voice

Matt Taibbi

100%flagged-word coverage
22 attributed words100% of attributed speech84% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Unattributed Quote+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%Matt Taibbi: 100.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice-49.0 ptsWriter: 49.0%Matt Taibbi: 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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