404 Media62%
‘The Government Hopes To Set a Precedent’: An Interview With the Man Charged for Allegedly Wiping His GrapheneOS Phone 55%
By Joseph Cox75%
7/28/2026, 10:27:01 AM
Keywords: Privacy
BS Summary: This article contains 14 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Appeal to Emotion, and Burden of Proof, with Pessimism Bias as the most egregious example at 37.8% saturation with 48 hits. Analysis detected 424 faulty-reasoning hits from 127 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 51.4% and a BS Rank of 55% (10,268 of 22,840 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 55.00% of the article peer group.
In charging a man for allegedly typing in a duress password which wiped his privacy-focused GrapheneOS phone, the U.S. government is trying to intimidate other activists from protecting their data and participating in social movements, Samuel Tunick, the man charged, told 404 Media in an interview on Tuesday.
The case of Tunick, who participated in the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, has resonated across privacy and civil liberties circles.
404 Media first broke news of the case in December.
Last week, The Guardian reported additional details including from a court hearing in the case.
The maximum sentence for the alleged crime is five years in federal prison.
Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
10.2%Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
17.3%Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
0%Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
15%Framing Effect
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Loss Aversion
0%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
37.8%Pessimism Bias
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37.8%AuthorJoseph Cox
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Negativity Bias
37.8%Negativity Bias
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37.8%AuthorJoseph Cox
20.7%Publication404 Media
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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
11.8%Recency Bias
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Primacy Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
0%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
17.3%Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
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Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
37.8%Appeal to Emotion
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37.8%AuthorJoseph Cox
6.4%Publication404 Media
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Begging the Question
15%Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
37.8%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
10.2%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
37.8%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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127 words analyzed.
Analysis
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