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Top Instagram reels from Goats and Soda in 2025: Plumpy'Nut, aid cuts, soccer grannies⁠71%

By Marc Silver⁠0% Ben de la Cruz⁠0%

12/26/2025, 3:37:29 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 13 faulty reasoning types, including Anchoring Bias, Optimism Bias, and Ambiguity (Equivocation), with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 23.2% saturation with 32 hits. Analysis detected 238 faulty-reasoning hits from 138 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 63.2% and a BS Rank of ⁠71% (6,548 of 21,886 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 70.10% of the article peer group.

From left: Players celebrate during the grannies soccer tournament in South Africa. 
A Dalit kitchen in India. 
Plumpy'Nut bars manufactured at the Edesia Nutrition plant in Rhode Island. 
Mary Mayongana, 42, lost access to her HIV medicine as a result of U.S. aid cuts in Zambia. 
Instagram reels are reely ... er ... really popular. 
(Editor's note: It turns out that "reely" is really an alternate spelling for "really" from long ago — way before reels were invented.) 
Is there data to back this up? 
Mark Zuckerberg says so. 
The CEO of Meta, which owns Instagram as well as Facebook, reports that in 2025 reels have reached new heights on these platforms: 200 billion plays a day. 
NPR's global health and development blog was responsible for millions of those views. 
Here are our biggest Instagram reels this year. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Marc Silver: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.3%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 20.3%Marc Silver: 23.4%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.6%Anchoring Bias20.3%This article: 0.0%Marc Silver: 12.3%Goats and Soda (NPR): 3.8%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Marc Silver: 1.7%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 9.4%Marc Silver: 4.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 3.4%Confirmation Bias9.4%This article: 0.0%Marc Silver: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 13.0%Marc Silver: 15.8%Goats and Soda (NPR): 11.1%Framing Effect13.0%This article: 0.0%Marc Silver: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.1%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 2.9%Marc Silver: 9.2%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.8%Halo Effect2.9%This article: 0.0%Marc Silver: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.8%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Marc Silver: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.3%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Marc Silver: 6.6%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.3%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Marc Silver: 2.2%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.2%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 13.0%Marc Silver: 13.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 11.3%Negativity Bias13.0%This article: 20.3%Marc Silver: 10.1%Goats and Soda (NPR): 3.4%Optimism Bias20.3%This article: 0.0%Marc Silver: 5.6%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.2%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Marc Silver: 3.4%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.4%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Marc Silver: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.3%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Marc Silver: 4.7%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.5%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 5.8%Marc Silver: 10.4%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.7%Recency Bias5.8%This article: 0.0%Marc Silver: 9.8%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.2%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 15.2%Marc Silver: 10.4%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.3%Self-Serving Bias15.2%This article: 0.0%Marc Silver: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.1%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Marc Silver: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Marc Silver: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.2%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 20.3%Marc Silver: 7.2%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.5%Ambiguity (Equivocation)20.3%This article: 0.0%Marc Silver: 19.6%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.8%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 23.2%Marc Silver: 26.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 6.1%Appeal to Authority23.2%This article: 0.0%Marc Silver: 4.3%Goats and Soda (NPR): 6.6%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Marc Silver: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 6.5%Marc Silver: 14.3%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.7%Bandwagon6.5%This article: 9.4%Marc Silver: 1.6%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.9%Begging the Question9.4%This article: 0.0%Marc Silver: 1.7%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Marc Silver: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Marc Silver: 0.6%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Marc Silver: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.5%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Marc Silver: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Marc Silver: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.5%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Marc Silver: 5.2%Goats and Soda (NPR): 4.4%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Marc Silver: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Marc Silver: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Marc Silver: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 13.0%Marc Silver: 8.7%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.8%Post Hoc (False Cause)13.0%This article: 0.0%Marc Silver: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Marc Silver: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.3%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Marc Silver: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Marc Silver: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Marc Silver: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.2%Tu Quoque0.0%

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