Author summary
12%25 analyzed articles/videos16,789 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Swati Khandelwal results contain 49 faulty reasoning types, including Indoctrination, Appeal to Authority, and Hasty Generalization, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 6.6% saturation with 5,667 hits. Analysis detected 50,465 faulty-reasoning hits from 85,564 analyzed words across 25 articles, generating a BS Score of 1.2% and a BS Rank of 4% (5,993 of 6,245 authors). This Swati Khandelwal is better (less manipulative) than 96.00% of the peer group.
Swati Khandelwal
Author ranking list
PercentileAuthorBS Score
0%Vivek Chibber1%
0%Sneha Dey1%
0%Ideastream Public Media1%
0%Megan Fan Munce1%
1%Los Angeles Times staff1%
4%Swati Khandelwal (selected)2%
100%Greg Rosenstein38%
100%Siham Shamalakh43%
100%Greg Miller54%
100%Kevin Kniestedt60%
100%Bill Radke60%
Author details
Total words: 85,564
Article count: 25
Publications

Ranking context

Position among analyzed authors

4% percentile
02550751004.0% percentile
1.2% BS Score25 analyzed articles85.6K analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

AuthorSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Framing EffectSitewide 26.9%Author 3.0%3.0%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Author 0.9%0.9%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Author 6.6%6.6%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Author 4.0%4.0%In-Group BiasSitewide 6.9%Author 0.1%0.1%Halo EffectSitewide 6.7%Author 0.4%0.4%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Author 3.7%3.7%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Author 2.6%2.6%Optimism BiasSitewide 6.0%Author 1.2%1.2%IndoctrinationSitewide 0.0%Author 4.7%4.7%

Sitewide departure map

Above the diagonal means this profile uses the pattern more often

0.0%0.0%10%10%20%20%30%30%40%40%50%50%Framing Effect: Author 3.0%, sitewide 26.9%Negativity Bias: Author 6.6%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to Emotion: Author 0.9%, sitewide 15.9%Appeal to Authority: Author 4.0%, sitewide 11.1%Availability Heuristic: Author 3.7%, sitewide 9.1%Hasty Generalization: Author 3.9%, sitewide 8.1%Confirmation Bias: Author 2.6%, sitewide 7.5%In-Group Bias: Author 0.1%, sitewide 6.9%Halo Effect: Author 0.4%, sitewide 6.7%Optimism Bias: Author 1.2%, sitewide 6.0%Biased Writer Voice: Author 2.9%, sitewide 5.3%Anecdotal: Author 1.1%, sitewide 5.2%Indoctrination: Author 4.7%, sitewide 0.0%Overconfidence Bias: Author 2.3%, sitewide 4.6%Anchoring Bias: Author 1.5%, sitewide 4.0%Self-Serving Bias: Author 0.4%, sitewide 3.7%Post Hoc (False Cause): Author 2.1%, sitewide 3.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias: Author 0.1%, sitewide 3.1%Fundamental Attribution Error: Author 0.4%, sitewide 2.7%Recency Bias: Author 1.4%, sitewide 2.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Author 2.6%, sitewide 0.8%Loss Aversion: Author 0.9%, sitewide 2.5%Bandwagon: Author 0.1%, sitewide 2.2%Status Quo Bias: Author 0.6%, sitewide 2.2%Framing EffectSitewide rateAuthor rate

Analyzed articles and videos

GitHub Cuts Public Bug Bounty Payouts, Moves Top Rewards to VIP Tier27%
The Hacker News17%By Swati Khandelwal12%7/22/2026, 6:37:42 PM
Police Dismantle Kratos Phishing Kit Built to Steal Microsoft 365 Sessions and Bypass MFA32%
The Hacker News17%By Swati Khandelwal12%7/22/2026, 5:30:00 AM
AWS Kiro Flaw Let a Poisoned Web Page Rewrite Its Config and Run Code23%
The Hacker News17%By Swati Khandelwal12%7/21/2026, 4:06:00 PM
Open-Source Android AI Agents Could Let Invisible Screen Text Run Code on Host PCs14%
The Hacker News17%By Swati Khandelwal12%7/21/2026, 11:58:00 AM
FakeGit Campaign Uses 7,600 GitHub Repositories to Spread SmartLoader Malware69%
The Hacker News17%By Swati Khandelwal12%7/20/2026, 6:23:03 PM
Exposed Server Reveals AI-Assisted Phishing Toolkit Behind WebDAV Malware Campaign31%
The Hacker News17%By Swati Khandelwal12%7/20/2026, 5:29:00 PM
Russian Intelligence Hacks IP Cameras to Spy on Military Logistics Across NATO States and Ukraine65%
The Hacker News17%By Swati Khandelwal12%7/20/2026, 12:13:00 PM
Critical NGINX Vulnerability Can Crash Workers and May Allow Remote Code Execution43%
The Hacker News17%By Swati Khandelwal12%7/19/2026, 8:48:24 PM
New wp2shell WordPress Core Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Run Code37%
The Hacker News17%By Swati Khandelwal12%7/17/2026, 9:23:08 PM
OpenSSL HollowByte Flaw Could Freeze Server Memory with 11-Byte TLS Requests31%
The Hacker News17%By Swati Khandelwal12%7/17/2026, 8:20:53 PM