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‘We’re not going back!’: Voters protest SCOTUS voting rights ruling at Alabama capitol ⁠73%

5/16/2026, 8:35:34 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 9 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Biased Writer Voice, and Indoctrination, with In-Group Bias as the most egregious example at 46.5% saturation with 33 hits. Analysis detected 217 faulty-reasoning hits from 71 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 64.8% and a BS Rank of ⁠73% (6,078 of 21,886 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 72.20% of the article peer group.

Protesters, faith leaders, and voting rights activists are gathering across the South to demonstrate against Republican gerrymandering efforts that could disenfranchise minority voters, 60 years after the passage of the Voting Rights Act. 
MS NOW Reporter Laura Haefeli is on the ground in Montgomery, Alabama at one of those protests and spoke to voters to hear their thoughts. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%MS NOW: 7.5%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%MS NOW: 1.2%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%MS NOW: 3.7%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%MS NOW: 1.1%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%MS NOW: 1.3%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%MS NOW: 2.6%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 18.3%MS NOW: 15.4%Framing Effect18.3%This article: 18.3%MS NOW: 0.7%Loss Aversion18.3%This article: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.9%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%MS NOW: 2.4%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%MS NOW: 3.2%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 18.3%MS NOW: 19.2%Negativity Bias18.3%This article: 0.0%MS NOW: 2.4%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%MS NOW: 3.1%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.3%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 46.5%MS NOW: 3.5%In-Group Bias46.5%This article: 0.0%MS NOW: 2.5%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%MS NOW: 2.2%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%MS NOW: 1.8%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%MS NOW: 1.8%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.6%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.2%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%MS NOW: 4.7%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%MS NOW: 1.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%MS NOW: 5.4%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%MS NOW: 2.2%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%MS NOW: 2.2%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%MS NOW: 8.1%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.7%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.9%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 46.5%MS NOW: 9.8%Appeal to Emotion46.5%This article: 0.0%MS NOW: 2.4%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%MS NOW: 3.2%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.6%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.9%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%MS NOW: 2.6%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%MS NOW: 1.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.3%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.3%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%MS NOW: 1.3%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%MS NOW: 2.5%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 18.3%MS NOW: 1.5%Quote-first Misdirection18.3%This article: 46.5%MS NOW: 14.2%Biased Writer Voice46.5%This article: 46.5%MS NOW: 2.1%Indoctrination46.5%This article: 46.5%MS NOW: 5.3%Politically Left Leaning Bias46.5%This article: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.6%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.4%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

71 words analyzed.

Speakers

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Writer's voice • 13 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 33 words • 100.0% coverageMS NOW Reporter Laura Haefeli • 25 words • 0.0% coverage
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0%37.5%75.0%Biased Writer Voice-71.7 ptsWriter: 71.7%MS NOW Reporter Laura Haefeli: 0.0%0.0%Indoctrination-71.7 ptsWriter: 71.7%MS NOW Reporter Laura Haefeli: 0.0%0.0%Politically Left Leaning B-71.7 ptsWriter: 71.7%MS NOW Reporter Laura Haefeli: 0.0%0.0%Quote-first Misdirection-28.3 ptsWriter: 28.3%MS NOW Reporter Laura Haefeli: 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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