Topic summary
27%28 analyzed articles/videos16,195 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Privacy results contain 54 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Framing Effect, and Appeal to Emotion, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 10.6% saturation with 10,721 hits. Analysis detected 78,915 faulty-reasoning hits from 101,203 analyzed words across 28 articles, generating a BS Score of 1.4% and a BS Rank of 7% (14,642 of 15,601 topics). This Privacy is better (less manipulative) than 93.90% of the peer group.

Ranking context

Position among analyzed topics

6% percentile
02550751006.1% percentile
1.4% BS Score28 analyzed articles101.2K analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

TopicSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Framing EffectSitewide 26.9%Topic 5.5%5.5%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Topic 4.4%4.4%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Topic 10.6%10.6%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Topic 3.8%3.8%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Topic 2.9%2.9%In-Group BiasSitewide 6.9%Topic 0.9%0.9%Halo EffectSitewide 6.7%Topic 1.5%1.5%Optimism BiasSitewide 6.0%Topic 1.7%1.7%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Topic 3.5%3.5%Overconfidence BiasSitewide 4.6%Topic 0.9%0.9%

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: Topic 5.5%, sitewide 26.9%Negativity Bias: Topic 10.6%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to Emotion: Topic 4.4%, sitewide 15.9%Appeal to Authority: Topic 3.8%, sitewide 11.1%Availability Heuristic: Topic 2.9%, sitewide 9.1%Hasty Generalization: Topic 4.4%, sitewide 8.1%Confirmation Bias: Topic 3.5%, sitewide 7.5%Biased Writer Voice: Topic 7.4%, sitewide 5.3%In-Group Bias: Topic 0.9%, sitewide 6.9%Halo Effect: Topic 1.5%, sitewide 6.7%Optimism Bias: Topic 1.7%, sitewide 6.0%Anecdotal: Topic 3.2%, sitewide 5.2%Overconfidence Bias: Topic 0.9%, sitewide 4.6%Anchoring Bias: Topic 0.6%, sitewide 4.0%Self-Serving Bias: Topic 1.0%, sitewide 3.7%Post Hoc (False Cause): Topic 1.9%, sitewide 3.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias: Topic 0.2%, sitewide 3.1%Fundamental Attribution Error: Topic 0.6%, sitewide 2.7%Recency Bias: Topic 1.1%, sitewide 2.7%Loss Aversion: Topic 0.4%, sitewide 2.5%Unattributed Quote: Topic 2.3%, sitewide 1.1%Bandwagon: Topic 0.6%, sitewide 2.2%Status Quo Bias: Topic 0.5%, sitewide 2.2%Ad Hominem: Topic 1.2%, sitewide 2.2%Framing EffectSitewide rateTopic rate

Analyzed articles and videos

LG Faces Swift Backlash Over Claims Its Gaming Monitors Are Automatically Installing Adware And ‘Wiretapping’ PCs72%
Kotaku73%By Lewis Parker68%7/23/2026, 11:00:38 PM
Tampa woman files police report over man repeatedly following, photographing her while running on Bayshore37%
FOX 13 News47%7/23/2026, 2:55:07 AM
Pennsylvania's Top Court Unanimously Rejects Warrantless Searches of Private Land5%
Reason.com39%By Jacob Sullum20%7/21/2026, 9:15:36 PM
90,000 Flock cameras have quietly gone up in the US: What they track and how to check your city25%
ZDNET57%By Elyse Betters Picaro7%7/21/2026, 3:13:00 PM
DA: Cop covered bodycam to snap nude prisoners on his iPhone—but other cams caught him55%
Ars Technica22%By Nate Anderson39%7/20/2026, 10:15:51 PM
Jennifer Siebel Newsom's Radical Gender Documentaries Force Student Viewers To Reveal if They're Gay and ID 'Fags': Films Are Funded and Promoted by Newsom Donors, Appointees75%
Washington Free Beacon89%By Andrew Kerr75%7/20/2026, 9:00:46 AM
San Jose man arrested after hidden camera found in Starbucks bathroom9%
The Mercury News21%By Molly Gibbs6%7/18/2026, 6:27:33 PM
Asking Eric: Cousin’s dire premonition haunts divorcée65%
The Denver Post11%By R. Eric Thomas32%7/18/2026, 9:00:59 AM
The Soccer Surveillance State43%
Foreign Policy30%By John Klopotowski67%7/17/2026, 6:35:59 PM
Alameda County expands the surveillance state with renewal of Flock Safety cameras83%
San Francisco Chronicle11%By Zach A. Brooks0%7/17/2026, 11:00:00 AM