Think Musk the billionaire was bad? Brace yourself for Musk the trillionaire ^45.4%

The Guardian - By Arwa Mahdawi - 6/9/2026, 11:00 AM

Biased Writer Voice 53.1% - Negativity Bias 45.2% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 25.4%

“Whoever said ‘money can’t buy happiness’ really knew what they were talking about,” Elon Musk wrote in February on Twitter/X, the social network he bought for $44bn. He capped the statement with a sad face emoji. Alas, Musk’s information is outdated. A 2024 study found a substantial difference in happiness between the wealthy and people... more

Why is Hasan Piker ‘not conducive to the public good’? Because on Gaza, we punish the witness, not the crime ^50.5%

The Guardian - By Arwa Mahdawi - 6/4/2026, 6:25 PM

Negativity Bias 41.1% - Indoctrination 26.8% - Biased Writer Voice 24.4%

This week, the British government banned Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur, two leftwing US commentators with millions of followers, from entering the country on the grounds that their presence would not be “conducive to the public good”. It did not spell out what it meant by this very broad phrase, but Piker and Uygur have accused the... more

Beware what you tell your AI chatbot. It’s not a shrink – it’s a snitch ^75.9%

The Guardian - By Arwa Mahdawi - 5/13/2026, 10:00 AM

Negativity Bias 51.7% - Biased Writer Voice 47.7% - Availability Heuristic 29.2%

The hottest new read of 2026 may well be The Secret Diary of Greg Brockman, Aged 38¾. It’s got everything: feuding billionaires, scheming CEOs and a perhaps somewhat unreliable narrator. You won’t find it in the library, but you can watch Brockman, a co-founder and president of OpenAI, being forced to read the juiciest bits out loud in... more

How do you convince Americans to eat fish? Disguise it as meat, of course ^38.5%

The Guardian - By Arwa Mahdawi - 4/8/2026, 10:00 AM

Negativity Bias 29.3% - Hasty Generalization 19.3% - Appeal to Emotion 19.1%

The seafood industry is trying to tackle a slippery problem: the US has never developed a taste for fish. Americans will eat canned cheese product and put marshmallow “fluff” on their sandwiches, but they seem to balk at eating fish. The average American consumes about 19lb (under 9kg) of the stuff a year, while the global average is... more

Pete Hegseth is imbuing violence with a religious righteousness ^67.9%

The Guardian - By Arwa Mahdawi - 3/28/2026, 1:00 PM

Negativity Bias 42.2% - Biased Writer Voice 27.1% - Appeal to Emotion 17.2%

Is it woke to wash your hands? Pete Hegseth seems to think so. Back in 2019 when he was still just a Fox News host rather than the guy in charge of “the Department of War”, Hegseth said on-air that he hadn’t washed his hands for 10 years because “germs are not a real thing.” He added: “I can’t see them; therefore, they’re not real.”... more

Trump’s Iran war has cost Americans at least $11bn already. And that’s just the start ^43.2%

The Guardian - By Arwa Mahdawi - 3/17/2026, 11:00 AM

Generally speaking, when you bomb another country, and that country retaliates, you call it a “war”. Very simple word. Three letters. Even Donald Trump knows how to spell it. But be careful about calling the US-Israeli attacks on Iran, which have expanded into an Israeli ground invasion of Lebanon, a “war”. The geniuses in the White... more