Daily Kos⁠84%

Trump meddles in the World Cup, and is Mitch McConnell okay? ⁠85%

By Daily Kos Staff⁠96%

7/7/2026, 12:00:00 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 21 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Hasty Generalization, and Framing Effect, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 69.7% saturation with 101 hits. Analysis detected 527 faulty-reasoning hits from 145 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 77.2% and a BS Rank of ⁠85% (3,279 of 21,886 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 85.00% of the article peer group.

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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 8.3%Daily Kos Staff: 5.1%Daily Kos: 5.7%Confirmation Bias8.3%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.1%Daily Kos: 0.7%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 19.3%Daily Kos Staff: 3.4%Daily Kos: 3.3%Availability Heuristic19.3%This article: 6.9%Daily Kos Staff: 0.3%Daily Kos: 1.0%Representativeness Heuristic6.9%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.6%Daily Kos: 0.9%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.3%Daily Kos: 1.4%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 26.9%Daily Kos Staff: 20.8%Daily Kos: 8.9%Framing Effect26.9%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 2.5%Daily Kos: 0.6%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.4%Daily Kos: 0.3%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 9.7%Daily Kos Staff: 0.6%Daily Kos: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect9.7%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 1.1%Daily Kos: 1.4%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 4.8%Daily Kos Staff: 3.8%Daily Kos: 2.0%Pessimism Bias4.8%This article: 69.7%Daily Kos Staff: 36.1%Daily Kos: 15.4%Negativity Bias69.7%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.5%Daily Kos: 1.0%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 3.5%Daily Kos: 2.6%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.1%Daily Kos: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 3.9%Daily Kos: 2.1%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 2.2%Daily Kos: 1.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.8%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 2.9%Daily Kos: 0.8%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 11.7%Daily Kos Staff: 1.1%Daily Kos: 1.5%Recency Bias11.7%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.6%Daily Kos: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 15.9%Daily Kos Staff: 16.4%Daily Kos: 5.8%Ad Hominem15.9%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 2.1%Daily Kos: 1.4%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.5%Daily Kos: 3.2%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 3.1%Daily Kos: 2.3%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.7%Daily Kos: 1.3%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.2%Daily Kos: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 29.7%Daily Kos Staff: 15.1%Daily Kos: 9.8%Hasty Generalization29.7%This article: 7.6%Daily Kos Staff: 0.6%Daily Kos: 0.5%Red Herring7.6%This article: 6.2%Daily Kos Staff: 1.8%Daily Kos: 0.6%Bandwagon6.2%This article: 21.4%Daily Kos Staff: 19.3%Daily Kos: 7.3%Appeal to Emotion21.4%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 4.4%Daily Kos: 1.9%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 2.8%Daily Kos: 3.9%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.3%Daily Kos: 0.5%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 4.1%Daily Kos Staff: 1.1%Daily Kos: 0.8%Burden of Proof4.1%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 12.4%Daily Kos Staff: 1.7%Daily Kos: 2.0%Anecdotal12.4%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 10.3%Daily Kos Staff: 3.0%Daily Kos: 1.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation)10.3%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.2%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.3%Daily Kos: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.1%Daily Kos: 0.4%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 3.3%Daily Kos: 2.8%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 15.2%Daily Kos Staff: 2.7%Daily Kos: 1.8%Quote-first Misdirection15.2%This article: 46.9%Daily Kos Staff: 49.7%Daily Kos: 23.1%Biased Writer Voice46.9%This article: 4.8%Daily Kos Staff: 5.5%Daily Kos: 2.1%Indoctrination4.8%This article: 13.1%Daily Kos Staff: 32.3%Daily Kos: 10.4%Politically Left Leaning Bias13.1%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.1%Daily Kos: 0.4%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 18.6%Daily Kos Staff: 11.5%Daily Kos: 2.2%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…18.6%

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