Author: Alex Woodward
Alex Woodward
has 24.5% among authors.
BS Score: 2%.
Articles analyzed: 20.
Words analyzed: 68,107.
Analyzed articles
The Independent
- By Alex Woodward, James C. Reynolds
- 6/22/2026, 12:44 PM
Biased Writer Voice 37.3% - Framing Effect 36.9% - Negativity Bias 36.9%
Iran hit back at Donald Trump on Monday after the US president threatened to “take over the rest of the country” if the Strait of Hormuz is closed again. “You make threats; we take action,” Ebrahim Azizi, the head of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, wrote on social media in apparent reference to... more
The Independent
- By Alex Woodward
- 6/17/2026, 11:08 PM
Negativity Bias 53.9% - Biased Writer Voice 36.9% - Confirmation Bias 19.8%
The judge who presided over a blockbuster fraud trial alleging brazen fraud in Donald Trump’s real estate empire says he still gets harassing phone calls and messages after he was subject to an avalanche of attacks from the president and his allies. New York Justice Arthur Engoron, who is now retired, was bombarded with antisemitic and... more
The Independent
- By Alex Woodward
- 6/16/2026, 3:05 PM
Negativity Bias 27.8% - Biased Writer Voice 16.2% - Appeal to Authority 15%
Jeffrey Epstein may have tried to kill himself in prison more times than previously known before he was found unresponsive in his jail cell while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges in 2019. The wealthy and well-connected sex offender tried to kill himself by hanging at least two other times before a previously reported failed... more
The Independent
- By Alex Woodward, Jasmine Fernández, Katie Hawkinson
- 6/15/2026, 1:00 AM
Negativity Bias 22.9% - Appeal to Authority 21.3% - Framing Effect 17%
Donald Trump has greeted the massive crowd gathered on the White House South Lawn for tonight’s UFC event. The president, who celebrated his 80th birthday today, was joined by UFC CEO Dana White as he waved to the crowd from the White House balcony. The first fight kicked off about twenty minutes later, amid concerns that severe weather... more
The Independent
- By Alex Woodward
- 6/6/2026, 12:24 PM
Negativity Bias 36.7% - Framing Effect 18.6% - Biased Writer Voice 12.3%
The Beach Boys. Busta Rhymes. Don McLean. None of them are performing at President Donald Trump’s Great American State Fair, pitched by the administration as a free, World’s Fair-inspired celebration drawing “star-studded entertainment” and “legendary” artists to Washington, D.C. this summer. But you can find them at the Indiana State... more
The Independent
- By Alex Woodward
- 6/5/2026, 9:31 PM
Negativity Bias 36.3% - Biased Writer Voice 27.9% - Framing Effect 27.4%
President Donald Trump appears to have abandoned his attempt to open a nearly $1.8 billion compensation fund for his political allies, but the administration is sitting on a virtually bottomless pile of cash used to settle claims brought against the federal government. Hundreds of people accused of joining a mob that fought police and... more
The Independent
- By Alex Woodward, Andrew Feinberg
- 6/3/2026, 11:05 AM
Negativity Bias 32.7% - Biased Writer Voice 24.9% - Framing Effect 14%
A White House-backed concert series imploded within hours of the lineup being announced. Days later, Donald Trump was threatening to headline the events himself or cancel the whole thing outright. His administration’s Freedom 250 project boasted “star-studded entertainment” from “legendary” artists. But by the end of the week, the... more
The Independent
- By Alex Woodward
- 5/30/2026, 12:22 PM
Negativity Bias 36.4% - Anecdotal 32.6% - Appeal to Authority 26.2%
Last summer, as federal agents were grabbing immigrants moments after they left their court hearings, officers crammed as many as 100 people at a time into a makeshift detention facility on the 10th floor of a Manhattan skyscraper. After covertly recorded video footage showed detainees lying on cement floors with nothing but emergency... more
The Independent
- By Alex Woodward
- 5/29/2026, 9:06 PM
Appeal to Authority 45.6% - Negativity Bias 34.3% - Framing Effect 20.8%
Donald Trump’s administration has launched dozens of airstrikes that have killed nearly 200 people in the eastern Pacific and Caribbean, a campaign that military officials have described as a campaign against “terrorist” groups trafficking drugs into the U.S. But the months-long attacks have reportedly done little to combat the flow of... more
The Independent
- By Alex Woodward
- 5/26/2026, 9:12 PM
Negativity Bias 39.2% - Confirmation Bias 20.1% - Appeal to Emotion 20%
Dozens of protesters have spent days surrounding the gates of an immigration detention center where detainees are on hunger strike to protest what they have described as unconstitutional and inhumane conditions inside. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in military gear with heavily armored police trucks remain in a standoff... more