Fox News88%

'Targeted shooting' in Illinois kills 5 family members 58%

By Landon Mion85%

7/12/2026, 12:00:00 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 12 faulty reasoning types, including Unattributed Quote, Appeal to Emotion, and Red Herring, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 35% saturation with 111 hits. Analysis detected 343 faulty-reasoning hits from 317 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 55.4% and a BS Rank of 58% (6,568 of 15,415 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 57.40% of the article peer group.

Todd Blanche slams Illinois governor for refusing federal help in Chicago 
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche addresses alarming Chicago violence, revealing eight dead and dozens shot over the weekend. 
He criticizes Illinois Gov. 
JB Pritzker for allegedly refusing federal assistance. 
Blanche contrasts Chicago's situation with successful crime reduction efforts in Washington, D.C. and Memphis, emphasizing the critical need for local and federal cooperation to stop the violence. 
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Seven family members were shot, five fatally, in what officials described as a "targeted mass shooting" in Illinois on Sunday. 
Two teenage suspects  both 16  were taken into custody in connection with the shootings, Illinois State Police announced at a press briefing. 
Charges have not yet been filed against the suspects. 
GUNFIRE SHATTERS TORONTO LATIN STREET FESTIVAL, LEAVING AT LEAST 2 DEAD AND MULTIPLE WOUNDED 
Two teenage suspects were taken into custody in connection with the shootings, authorities said. 
(Illinois State Police) 
Police said there were shootings at multiple locations in East St. 
Louis, Illinois , including at 39th and Summit, the Gompers public housing project and Jones Park. 
Five people were killed while two others were transported to a hospital with serious injuries. 
CHICAGO OFFICERS WOUNDED IN TRAFFIC STOP SHOOTOUT AS HOLIDAY WEEKEND LEAVES 3 DEAD, 16 INJURED 
Police said there were shootings at multiple locations in East St. 
Louis, Illinois. 
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"I just want to say these alleged acts of horrific violence, taking this number of lives here in this community  it's terrible, it's evil, but it will not keep this city down," police said. 
Officials further called the incident a "terrible, terrible act of violence." 
Officials called the incident a "terrible, terrible act of violence." 
(Illinois State Police) 
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Police said there was no known threat to the public. 
Confirmation Bias
0%
Anchoring Bias
0%
Availability Heuristic
5.7%
Representativeness Heuristic
0%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
0%
Framing Effect
3.5%
Loss Aversion
0%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
3.2%
Pessimism Bias
0%
Negativity Bias
35%
Self-Serving Bias
0%
Fundamental Attribution Error
0%
Actor-Observer Bias
0%
In-Group Bias
0%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Halo Effect
0%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
0%
Primacy Effect
0%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
3.5%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
0%
False Dilemma
8.5%
Slippery Slope
0%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
2.2%
Red Herring
9.1%
Bandwagon
0%
Appeal to Emotion
11%
Begging the Question
0%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
0%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Composition/Division
0%
Anecdotal
0%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
0%
Gambler’s Fallacy
0%
Middle Ground
0%
Personal Incredulity
0%
Special Pleading
0%
Genetic Fallacy
0%
Unattributed Quote
17.7%
Quote-first Misdirection
0%
Biased Writer Voice
0%
Indoctrination
0%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
3.5%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
5.4%

317 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker7.6%attributed speech293writer words
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Illinois State Police

0%flagged-word coverage
24 attributed words100% of attributed speech74% writer coverage
Unattributed Quote-19.1 pts
Writer 19%Illinois State Police 0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service-5.8 pts
Writer 5.8%Illinois State Police 0%
Politically Right Leaning Bias-3.8 pts
Writer 3.8%Illinois State Police 0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

Analysis

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