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Top Instagram reels from Goats and Soda in 2025: Plumpy'Nut, aid cuts, soccer grannies70%
By Marc Silver0% Ben de la Cruz0%
12/26/2025, 3:37:29 PM
Keywords: Instagram, Reels, Plumpynut, Malnutrition, Hiv, Aid Cuts, Soccer, Grannies, Global Health, Social Media
BS Summary: This article contains 13 faulty reasoning types, including Anchoring Bias, Optimism Bias, and Ambiguity (Equivocation), with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 23.2% saturation with 32 hits. Analysis detected 238 faulty-reasoning hits from 138 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 63.2% and a BS Rank of 70% (5,159 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 69.30% of the article peer group.
From left: Players celebrate during the grannies soccer tournament in South Africa.
A Dalit kitchen in India.
Plumpy'Nut bars manufactured at the Edesia Nutrition plant in Rhode Island.
Mary Mayongana, 42, lost access to her HIV medicine as a result of U.S. aid cuts in Zambia.
Instagram reels are reely ... er ... really popular.
(Editor's note: It turns out that "reely" is really an alternate spelling for "really" from long ago — way before reels were invented.)
Is there data to back this up?
Mark Zuckerberg says so.
The CEO of Meta, which owns Instagram as well as Facebook, reports that in 2025 reels have reached new heights on these platforms: 200 billion plays a day.
NPR's global health and development blog was responsible for millions of those views.
Here are our biggest Instagram reels this year.
Analysis
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