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Our New FOIA Forum! 7/30, 1PM ET 73%
By Joseph Cox67%
7/23/2026, 4:52:00 AM
Keywords: Foia Forum
BS Summary: This article contains 15 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Framing Effect, and Biased Writer Voice, with Indoctrination as the most egregious example at 23.2% saturation with 68 hits. Analysis detected 437 faulty-reasoning hits from 293 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 65.1% and a BS Rank of 73% (5,996 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 72.60% of the article peer group.
It’s that time again!
We’re planning our latest FOIA Forum, a live, hour-long or more interactive session where Joseph and Jason will teach you how to pry records from government agencies through public records requests.
We’re planning this for Thursday, July 30th at 1PM ET.
That's in just one week today!
Add it to your calendar!
So, what’s the FOIA Forum?
We'll share our screen and show you specifically how we file FOIA requests.
We take questions from the chat and incorporate those into our FOIAs in real-time.
This time we're particularly focused on city council meetings.
Jason watches a lot of these and has tips for more quickly navigating and finding information within them.
He then does a bunch of public records requests based on what happened in the meeting.
He'll explain all of this, from Flock to other topics too.
If this will be your first FOIA Forum, don’t worry, we will do a quick primer on how to file requests (although if you do want to watch our previous FOIA Forums, the video archive is here).
We really love talking directly to our community about something we are obsessed with (getting documents from governments) and showing other people how to do it too.
Paid subscribers can already find the link to join the livestream below.
We'll also send out a reminder a day or so before.
Not a subscriber yet?
Sign up now here in time to join.
We've got a bunch of FOIAs that we need to file and are keen to hear from you all on what you want to see more of.
Most of all, we want to teach you how to make your own too.
Please consider coming along!
Analysis
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