Author: Maira Butt
Maira Butt
has 23.8% among authors.
BS Score: 2%.
Articles analyzed: 7.
Words analyzed: 26,452.
Analyzed articles
The Independent
- By Maroosha Muzaffar, Maira Butt
- 6/25/2026, 11:46 AM
Appeal to Emotion 39% - Negativity Bias 34.1% - Appeal to Authority 25.8%
The death toll from powerful back-to-back earthquakes that struck Venezuela on Wednesday has risen to 164, president Delcy Rodriguez has said. More than 10,000 people have also been reported missing, with rescuers searching among huge mounds of rubble after the quakes west of Caracas on Wednesday afternoon. At least 900 people have also... more
The Independent
- By Alisha Rahaman Sarkar, James C. Reynolds, Maira Butt
- 6/17/2026, 2:00 PM
Negativity Bias 70.9% - Appeal to Emotion 59.1% - Framing Effect 32.7%
President Donald Trump has threatened to restart the war in Iran if he doesn’t like the terms of any deal agreed with Tehran. Speaking from the G7 summit in the French Alps on Wednesday, he said that a memorandum of understanding had not been finalised but that he would go back to “shooting at them and dropping bombs right smack in the... more
The Independent
- By Alisha Rahaman Sarkar, Maira Butt
- 6/1/2026, 12:42 PM
Framing Effect 17.6% - Recency Bias 17% - Negativity Bias 15.8%
President Donald Trump told Americans to “sit back and relax” as the US and Tehran exchanged fresh strikes. “Just sit back and relax, it will all work out well in the end - It always does!” he wrote on Truth Social on Monday, while insisting Iran “really wants to make a deal”. Meanwhile, Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps said it... more
The Independent
- By Rachel Dobkin, Maira Butt, Jane Dalton
- 4/22/2026, 12:30 AM
US President Donald Trump has promised to extend the ceasefire between the US and Iran, hours before it was due to end. He announced on social media that he had ordered the US military to continue to blockade Iranian ports until Iran’s leaders and representatives came up with “a unified proposal”. Trump had earlier said he did not want... more
The Independent
- By Alisha Rahaman Sarkar, Rachel Dobkin, Maira Butt
- 4/7/2026, 1:05 PM
Appeal to Authority 30% - Negativity Bias 27% - Ambiguity (Equivocation) 23.5%
Iran’s Kharg Island – a crucial oil export hub – has been targeted in several strikes on Tuesday, according to the Iranian Mehr news agency. A US official confirmed the attacks on military targets in comments to Axios. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said that if the US crossed red lines Tehran’s response would be “beyond the... more
The Independent
- By Vishwam Sankaran, Tara Cobham, Maira Butt
- 3/29/2026, 1:04 PM
Negativity Bias 39% - Appeal to Emotion 15.3% - Unattributed Quote 12.1%
Iranian armed forces are waiting for a ground invasion by US troops and are ready to “set them on fire and punish their regional partners forever” speaker of Iran’s parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said on Sunday. Ghalibaf accused the US of speaking of negotiations in public while planning a ground invasion in private, according to... more
The Independent
- By Maira Butt, Alex Croft
- 3/27/2026, 7:57 PM
Negativity Bias 26% - Appeal to Authority 16% - Ambiguity (Equivocation) 15.8%
The conflict between the US, Israel and Iran has wreaked havoc across the Middle East with war spilling over to multiple countries in the region. Retaliatory strikes have seen several nations, including Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Jordan, Oman, and Iraq hit following the attacks, as Iran has threatened... more