404 Media⁠48%

You Opened a Credit Card. ICE Now Knows Where You Live ⁠92%

By Joseph Cox⁠67%

7/22/2026, 6:14:27 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 18 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Burden of Proof, and Biased Writer Voice, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 68.9% saturation with 155 hits. Analysis detected 779 faulty-reasoning hits from 225 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 85.5% and a BS Rank of ⁠92% (1,945 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 91.10% of the article peer group.

When you open a new credit card, you necessarily give the credit card company your address. 
You probably expect that information to remain with your bank. 
But when you open a new credit card or change your address on file, your address leaves your credit card provider, travels through a web of middlemen companies, and ends up with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which can then search, analyze, or pair that data with other pieces of information about your life without a warrant. 
404 Media has mapped out this supply of data by reviewing U.S. government procurement records and internal documents from companies providing the information. 
It highlights the sometimes unexpected ways ICE is gaining access to peoples’ personal information as the agency continues to acquire and leverage all sorts of data. 
The agency is buying information not just for immigration enforcement but to also investigate what the administration describes as ‘voter fraud.’ 
ICE officials have also repeatedly attempted to intimidate legal observers of ICE activity. 
“No one signing up for a credit card thinks they're giving data brokers a thumbs-up to sell their personal information to ICE. 
Not only is it an outrageous violation of our privacy, it's impossible for Americans to opt out,” Senator Ron Wyden told 404 Media in a statement. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 13.8%Joseph Cox: 2.3%404 Media: 3.5%Confirmation Bias13.8%This article: 0.0%Joseph Cox: 0.9%404 Media: 0.9%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 2.7%Joseph Cox: 5.7%404 Media: 3.8%Availability Heuristic2.7%This article: 0.0%Joseph Cox: 0.8%404 Media: 1.6%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Cox: 0.4%404 Media: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 10.2%Joseph Cox: 1.6%404 Media: 2.8%Overconfidence Bias10.2%This article: 52.9%Joseph Cox: 13.2%404 Media: 5.6%Framing Effect52.9%This article: 0.0%Joseph Cox: 1.0%404 Media: 0.4%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Cox: 0.5%404 Media: 0.6%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Cox: 0.1%404 Media: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Cox: 1.0%404 Media: 2.8%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 11.6%Joseph Cox: 3.5%404 Media: 1.6%Pessimism Bias11.6%This article: 68.9%Joseph Cox: 20.0%404 Media: 11.5%Negativity Bias68.9%This article: 0.0%Joseph Cox: 1.0%404 Media: 0.9%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Cox: 0.4%404 Media: 0.7%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Cox: 0.0%404 Media: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Cox: 0.8%404 Media: 0.8%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Cox: 0.0%404 Media: 0.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Cox: 0.9%404 Media: 1.0%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Cox: 0.0%404 Media: 0.2%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Cox: 0.0%404 Media: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Cox: 1.7%404 Media: 1.0%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Cox: 0.7%404 Media: 0.3%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Cox: 0.2%404 Media: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Cox: 0.5%404 Media: 0.3%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Cox: 0.1%404 Media: 0.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 10.2%Joseph Cox: 4.0%404 Media: 3.3%Appeal to Authority10.2%This article: 11.6%Joseph Cox: 1.4%404 Media: 1.3%False Dilemma11.6%This article: 25.3%Joseph Cox: 0.9%404 Media: 1.2%Slippery Slope25.3%This article: 0.0%Joseph Cox: 0.0%404 Media: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 7.1%Joseph Cox: 9.5%404 Media: 7.8%Hasty Generalization7.1%This article: 9.3%Joseph Cox: 0.7%404 Media: 0.3%Red Herring9.3%This article: 0.0%Joseph Cox: 1.1%404 Media: 0.7%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 21.3%Joseph Cox: 6.3%404 Media: 4.8%Appeal to Emotion21.3%This article: 11.6%Joseph Cox: 0.2%404 Media: 0.7%Begging the Question11.6%This article: 0.0%Joseph Cox: 1.8%404 Media: 2.0%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Cox: 0.0%404 Media: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 35.1%Joseph Cox: 1.7%404 Media: 0.5%Burden of Proof35.1%This article: 0.0%Joseph Cox: 0.3%404 Media: 0.4%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Cox: 0.0%404 Media: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 5.8%Joseph Cox: 2.2%404 Media: 2.9%Anecdotal5.8%This article: 0.0%Joseph Cox: 0.0%404 Media: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Cox: 4.6%404 Media: 2.1%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Cox: 0.0%404 Media: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Cox: 0.0%404 Media: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Cox: 0.0%404 Media: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Cox: 0.0%404 Media: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Cox: 0.0%404 Media: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 9.8%Joseph Cox: 4.8%404 Media: 2.6%Unattributed Quote9.8%This article: 11.6%Joseph Cox: 2.7%404 Media: 1.6%Quote-first Misdirection11.6%This article: 27.6%Joseph Cox: 9.8%404 Media: 11.5%Biased Writer Voice27.6%This article: 0.0%Joseph Cox: 2.2%404 Media: 1.5%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Cox: 2.5%404 Media: 0.6%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Cox: 0.2%404 Media: 0.0%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Cox: 7.7%404 Media: 2.9%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

225 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker12%attributed speech199writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 5 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 16 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 57 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 23 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 26 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 21 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 22 words • 100.0% coverageSenator Ron Wyden • 26 words • 100.0% coverage
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Senator Ron Wyden

100%flagged-word coverage
26 attributed words100% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Quote-first Misdirection+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%Senator Ron Wyden: 100.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice-31.2 ptsWriter: 31.2%Senator Ron Wyden: 0.0%0.0%Unattributed Quote-11.1 ptsWriter: 11.1%Senator Ron Wyden: 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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