Al Jazeera56%
Iran war live: Trump slams Iranian proposal as ceasefire hangs by a thread 91%
By Zaid Sabah91% Danai Nesta Kupemba0%
5/12/2026, 12:00:00 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 12 faulty reasoning types, including Ambiguity (Equivocation), Appeal to Emotion, and Biased Writer Voice, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 91.6% saturation with 142 hits. Analysis detected 578 faulty-reasoning hits from 155 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 85.2% and a BS Rank of 91% (1,643 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 90.20% of the article peer group.
US President Donald Trump has said the ceasefire with Iran is “on life support” after rejecting Tehran’s latest proposal to end the conflict, calling it “totally unacceptable”.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Esmaeil Baghaei, said the US has made “unreasonable demands” to end the war, while the country’s parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, says Tehran is ready to respond to “any aggression”, which will leave the US “surprised”.
The European Union has agreed to impose new sanctions on Israeli settlers for violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying the move “will not succeed”.
The death toll in Gaza from Israel’s genocidal war has risen to 72,740, while Lebanon reports that Israeli attacks have killed 2,869 people across the country since March 2.
Visit our live tracker for the latest casualty figures from across the region.
Confirmation Bias
0%Confirmation Bias
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0%AuthorZaid Sabah
6.1%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Anchoring Bias
0%Anchoring Bias
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0%AuthorZaid Sabah
1.6%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Availability Heuristic
0%Availability Heuristic
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0%AuthorZaid Sabah
5%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Representativeness Heuristic
21.3%Representativeness Heuristic
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21.3%AuthorZaid Sabah
0.2%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Hindsight Bias
0%Hindsight Bias
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0%AuthorZaid Sabah
0%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Overconfidence Bias
0%Overconfidence Bias
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0%AuthorZaid Sabah
3.4%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Framing Effect
27.1%Framing Effect
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27.1%AuthorZaid Sabah
23.8%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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0%AuthorZaid Sabah
0.4%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Status Quo Bias
0%Status Quo Bias
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0%AuthorZaid Sabah
0.1%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Sunk Cost Effect
0%Sunk Cost Effect
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0%AuthorZaid Sabah
0%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Optimism Bias
0%Optimism Bias
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0%AuthorZaid Sabah
6%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Pessimism Bias
17.4%Pessimism Bias
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17.4%AuthorZaid Sabah
3%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Negativity Bias
91.6%Negativity Bias
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91.6%AuthorZaid Sabah
25.1%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Self-Serving Bias
0%Self-Serving Bias
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0%AuthorZaid Sabah
2.3%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Fundamental Attribution Error
0%Fundamental Attribution Error
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0%AuthorZaid Sabah
0.2%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Actor-Observer Bias
0%Actor-Observer Bias
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0%AuthorZaid Sabah
0.4%PublicationAl Jazeera
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In-Group Bias
0%In-Group Bias
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0%AuthorZaid Sabah
1.7%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
25.8%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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25.8%AuthorZaid Sabah
1.9%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Halo Effect
0%Halo Effect
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0%AuthorZaid Sabah
0.4%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Horn Effect
0%Horn Effect
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0%AuthorZaid Sabah
0.8%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%Dunning-Kruger Effect
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0%AuthorZaid Sabah
0%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Recency Bias
0%Recency Bias
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0%AuthorZaid Sabah
3.6%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Primacy Effect
0%Primacy Effect
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0%AuthorZaid Sabah
1.4%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
0%Ad Hominem
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0.3%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Straw Man
0%Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
21.3%Appeal to Authority
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21.3%AuthorZaid Sabah
7.6%PublicationAl Jazeera
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False Dilemma
0%False Dilemma
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0%AuthorZaid Sabah
4.3%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Slippery Slope
0%Slippery Slope
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0%AuthorZaid Sabah
1.9%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
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0%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Hasty Generalization
0%Hasty Generalization
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1.8%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Red Herring
0%Red Herring
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Bandwagon
0%Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
36.1%Appeal to Emotion
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36.1%AuthorZaid Sabah
9.5%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Begging the Question
0%Begging the Question
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1.2%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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0%AuthorZaid Sabah
2.2%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Tu Quoque
0%Tu Quoque
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0.3%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Burden of Proof
0%Burden of Proof
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0.6%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Appeal to Nature
0%Appeal to Nature
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Composition/Division
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Anecdotal
0%Anecdotal
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No True Scotsman
0%No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
44.5%Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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44.5%AuthorZaid Sabah
3.6%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Gambler’s Fallacy
0%Gambler’s Fallacy
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Middle Ground
0%Middle Ground
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Personal Incredulity
0%Personal Incredulity
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Special Pleading
0%Special Pleading
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Genetic Fallacy
0%Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
25.8%Unattributed Quote
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25.8%AuthorZaid Sabah
12.7%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Quote-first Misdirection
17.4%Quote-first Misdirection
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Biased Writer Voice
36.1%Biased Writer Voice
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36.1%AuthorZaid Sabah
13.9%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Indoctrination
0%Indoctrination
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%Politically Left Leaning Bias
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0%AuthorZaid Sabah
3.4%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%Politically Right Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
8.4%Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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8.4%AuthorZaid Sabah
1.1%PublicationAl Jazeera
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155 words analyzed.
Analysis
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