NBC News35%

Iranian bridges severely damaged after sixth night of U.S. strikes 81%

By NBCNews.com21%

7/17/2026, 12:53:48 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 8 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Unattributed Quote, and Confirmation Bias, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 58.2% saturation with 32 hits. Analysis detected 164 faulty-reasoning hits from 55 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 72.1% and a BS Rank of 81% (4,295 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 80.40% of the article peer group.

Bridges were severely damaged in Iran after the U.S. military said it completed its sixth consecutive night of strikes against the country. 
CENTCOM said in a statement posted on X that it targeted “coastal surveillance and air defense sites, military logistics infrastructure, and maritime capabilities.” 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 40.0%NBCNews.com: 2.7%NBC News: 2.1%Confirmation Bias40.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.2%NBC News: 0.8%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 2.0%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: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 1.3%NBC News: 1.7%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 18.2%NBCNews.com: 6.2%NBC News: 6.4%Framing Effect18.2%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: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.5%NBC News: 1.8%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.1%NBC News: 1.2%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 18.2%NBCNews.com: 5.8%NBC News: 7.0%Negativity Bias18.2%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: 0.8%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: 4.0%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: 40.0%NBCNews.com: 1.0%NBC News: 1.3%Recency Bias40.0%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: 0.8%NBC News: 0.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 41.8%NBCNews.com: 1.0%NBC News: 3.2%Appeal to Authority41.8%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.3%NBC News: 1.2%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: 2.6%NBC News: 3.2%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.7%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 1.6%NBC News: 4.9%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.3%NBC News: 0.8%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 40.0%NBCNews.com: 0.7%NBC News: 1.9%Post Hoc (False Cause)40.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.9%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: 1.5%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: 1.6%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: 41.8%NBCNews.com: 1.2%NBC News: 1.8%Unattributed Quote41.8%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.2%NBC News: 1.3%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 58.2%NBCNews.com: 3.2%NBC News: 4.1%Biased Writer Voice58.2%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%

55 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker42%attributed speech32writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 10 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 22 words • 100.0% coverageCENTCOM • 23 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

CENTCOM

100%flagged-word coverage
23 attributed words100% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Unattributed Quote+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%CENTCOM: 100.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice-100.0 ptsWriter: 100.0%CENTCOM: 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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