The Free Press74%
The Slow Death of Journalism, with Matt Taibbi 78%
By Eli Lake93%
7/23/2026, 9:00:51 AM
Keywords: Journalism, Breaking History
BS Summary: This article contains 7 faulty reasoning types, including Bandwagon, Biased Writer Voice, and Unattributed Quote, with Hasty Generalization as the most egregious example at 33.8% saturation with 24 hits. Analysis detected 125 faulty-reasoning hits from 71 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 70% and a BS Rank of 78% (4,573 of 20,497 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 77.70% of the article peer group.
When Alex Jones was removed from every major platform in a single coordinated sweep in 2018, most of the press cheered and moved on.
Matt Taibbi didn’t.
He wanted to know who made the call, how it was coordinated, and what it meant for everyone who wasn’t Alex Jones.
That curiosity eventually led him to the Twitter Files and a yearslong investigation in…
Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
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Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
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Self-Serving Bias
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Fundamental Attribution Error
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Actor-Observer Bias
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In-Group Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Halo Effect
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Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
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Primacy Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
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Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
33.8%Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
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Bandwagon
33.8%Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
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Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
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Composition/Division
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Anecdotal
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No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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Gambler’s Fallacy
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Middle Ground
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Personal Incredulity
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Special Pleading
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Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
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Quote-first Misdirection
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Biased Writer Voice
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Indoctrination
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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71 words analyzed.
Analysis
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