ABC News98%
Michigan synagogue attacker committed 'Hezbollah-inspired act of terrorism', according to FBI 99%
3/31/2026, 12:51:46 PM
BS Summary: This video contains 17 faulty reasoning types, including Confirmation Bias, Appeal to Authority, and Availability Heuristic, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 51.1% saturation with 68 hits. Analysis detected 605 faulty-reasoning hits from 133 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 99.5% and a BS Rank of 99% (236 of 16,813 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 98.60% of the video peer group.
The FBI now says that the man who rammed his truck into a Michigan synagogue earlier this month was inspired by Hezbollah.
They say he sent a video to his sister minutes before the attack acknowledging he was targeting Jews, saying he wanted to quote, "Kill as many
of them as I possibly can." 150 children were inside the synagogue at the time of
the attack.
The suspect had family members who were killed in an Israeli strike in Lebanon.
Israel said the attacker was the brother of a Hezbollah commander.
Director Tulsi Gabbard also told a Senate committee that the man did have family ties to the terrorist group.
The attacker exchanged gunfire with a security guard before fatally shooting himself.
Confirmation Bias
47.4%Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
16.5%Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
42.9%Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
8.3%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
51.1%Negativity Bias
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Self-Serving Bias
0%Self-Serving Bias
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Fundamental Attribution Error
10.5%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
19.5%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
14.3%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
47.4%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
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Red Herring
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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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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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133 words analyzed.
Analysis
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