NBC News⁠32%

Huge crowds turn out in Tehran for funeral of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ⁠83%

By Richard Engel⁠0% Babak Dehghanpisheh⁠58% Freddie Clayton⁠0%

7/4/2026, 12:18:57 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 7 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Hasty Generalization, and Appeal to Emotion, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 100% saturation with 60 hits. Analysis detected 272 faulty-reasoning hits from 60 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 75% and a BS Rank of ⁠83% (3,644 of 21,176 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 82.80% of the article peer group.

TEHRAN — Massive crowds showed up Saturday for the official start of the funeral of Iran’s former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, Iran’s capital, the beginning of a weeklong mourning period that is meant to project the strength and resilience of the Islamic Republic. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 1.4%NBC News: 1.9%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 0.6%NBC News: 0.8%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 4.9%NBC News: 2.9%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 1.4%NBC News: 0.8%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 1.1%NBC News: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 2.0%NBC News: 1.7%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 100.0%Richard Engel: 25.5%NBC News: 6.2%Framing Effect100.0%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 0.0%NBC News: 0.2%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 0.0%NBC News: 0.3%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 0.0%NBC News: 1.8%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 2.3%NBC News: 1.3%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 76.7%Richard Engel: 12.5%NBC News: 6.9%Negativity Bias76.7%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 0.0%NBC News: 1.2%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 1.6%NBC News: 0.7%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 0.0%NBC News: 1.5%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 0.0%NBC News: 0.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 0.0%NBC News: 4.2%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 0.0%NBC News: 0.3%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 1.4%NBC News: 1.3%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 1.1%NBC News: 0.5%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 0.0%NBC News: 0.6%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 0.0%NBC News: 0.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 2.9%NBC News: 2.9%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 1.4%NBC News: 1.1%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 0.0%NBC News: 0.5%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 76.7%Richard Engel: 1.6%NBC News: 3.2%Hasty Generalization76.7%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 0.0%NBC News: 0.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 23.3%Richard Engel: 2.6%NBC News: 0.7%Bandwagon23.3%This article: 76.7%Richard Engel: 8.8%NBC News: 5.0%Appeal to Emotion76.7%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 0.0%NBC News: 0.7%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 3.6%NBC News: 1.9%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 0.0%NBC News: 0.5%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 0.0%NBC News: 1.5%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 3.0%NBC News: 1.5%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 0.4%NBC News: 1.7%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 0.0%NBC News: 1.2%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 23.3%Richard Engel: 11.3%NBC News: 4.3%Biased Writer Voice23.3%This article: 76.7%Richard Engel: 1.6%NBC News: 1.1%Indoctrination76.7%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 0.0%NBC News: 0.5%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 0.0%NBC News: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Richard Engel: 0.0%NBC News: 0.5%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

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