ABC News99%

Deadly Ebola outbreak spreading 97%

5/31/2026, 3:00:40 AM

Topics: Video
Keywords: Youtube

BS Summary: This video contains 21 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Framing Effect, and Appeal to Authority, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 44.1% saturation with 93 hits. Analysis detected 549 faulty-reasoning hits from 211 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 94.9% and a BS Rank of 97% (695 of 20,248 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 96.60% of the video peer group.

Overseas now to the deadly Ebola outbreak. 
The number of cases and fatalities surging tonight. 
The head of the World Health Organization traveling to the epicenter of the outbreak. 
ABC's Marcus Moore is joining us now and 
Marcus medical workers are facing an uphill battle. 
>> Well, with this deadly outbreak is spreading rapidly. 
Reported cases of Ebola nearly doubling in just days. 
The World Health Organization chief traveling to the epicenter of this outbreak to assess the response. 
We know that more than 240 people are dead and 
there are over a thousand suspected and confirmed infections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in neighboring Uganda. 
US officials now setting up a special medical facility at a base in central Kenya, which would be used to potentially care for Americans who are at high risk of exposure to the virus. 
But a Kenyan judge is putting that on hold for now. 
And tonight, a colleague says that the infected American doctor Peter Stafford is, quote, doing really well, but remains weak as he undergoes treatment in Berlin. 
All of this is unfolding as the US prepares to host the World Cup in less than 2 weeks. 
With 
>> Okay, Marcus Moore, thanks to you. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%ABC News: 2.2%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 3.3%ABC News: 0.6%Anchoring Bias3.3%This article: 12.3%ABC News: 3.1%Availability Heuristic12.3%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.0%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 4.7%ABC News: 1.1%Overconfidence Bias4.7%This article: 19.9%ABC News: 6.8%Framing Effect19.9%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.2%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 5.2%ABC News: 0.4%Status Quo Bias5.2%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 2.1%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 10.9%ABC News: 1.0%Pessimism Bias10.9%This article: 44.1%ABC News: 7.7%Negativity Bias44.1%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.5%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.6%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 16.1%ABC News: 0.8%In-Group Bias16.1%This article: 12.3%ABC News: 0.4%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias12.3%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 2.3%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 13.3%ABC News: 1.3%Recency Bias13.3%This article: 3.8%ABC News: 0.4%Primacy Effect3.8%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.5%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 18.0%ABC News: 3.4%Appeal to Authority18.0%This article: 16.1%ABC News: 0.9%False Dilemma16.1%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.2%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 4.3%ABC News: 2.8%Hasty Generalization4.3%This article: 5.2%ABC News: 0.3%Red Herring5.2%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.5%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 26.1%ABC News: 4.4%Appeal to Emotion26.1%This article: 4.7%ABC News: 0.7%Begging the Question4.7%This article: 13.3%ABC News: 2.1%Post Hoc (False Cause)13.3%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 4.7%ABC News: 0.4%Burden of Proof4.7%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 9.5%ABC News: 0.2%Composition/Division9.5%This article: 12.3%ABC News: 1.2%Anecdotal12.3%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.9%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.9%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.1%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 3.2%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.7%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.8%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.1%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

211 words analyzed.

Speakers

6speakers59%attributed speech87writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 4 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 7 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 0.0% coverageWorld Health Organization • 14 words • 0.0% coverageABC's • 8 words • 0.0% coverageMarcus Moore • 8 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 9 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 9 words • 0.0% coverageWorld Health Organization • 16 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 20 words • 0.0% coverageUS officials • 34 words • 0.0% coverageKenyan judge • 11 words • 0.0% coveragePeter Stafford • 26 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 19 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 1 words • 0.0% coverageMarcus Moore • 7 words • 0.0% coverage
Selected voice

US officials

100%flagged-word coverage
34 attributed words27% of attributed speech99% 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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