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Publication: ProPublica

ProPublica has ^3.9% among publications. BS Score: 1.1%. Articles analyzed: 29. Words analyzed: 260,146.

Top reasoning patterns

Negativity Bias - 7.6% (19,863 hits)
Framing Effect - 7% (18,234 hits)
Appeal to Emotion - 4.8% (12,416 hits)
Confirmation Bias - 3% (7,880 hits)
Appeal to Authority - 3% (7,877 hits)
Biased Writer Voice - 2.8% (7,282 hits)
Hasty Generalization - 2.3% (5,927 hits)
Availability Heuristic - 2.2% (5,784 hits)

Analyzed articles

Massachusetts Set to Extend Statute of Limitations for Rape Cases With DNA Evidence ^33.5%

ProPublica - By Willoughby Mariano - 7/2/2026, 8:50 PM

Negativity Bias 24% - Appeal to Emotion 23.5% - Anecdotal 20%

Massachusetts’ deadline to prosecute rape cases will no longer be one of the strictest in the nation under a bill Gov. Maura Healey pledged to sign into law. State law currently bars nearly all rape prosecutions involving cases with adult victims after 15 years, making it difficult to charge someone after that deadline even in cases... more

How Google and AI Nearly Made a Seasoned Reporter Spiral ^21.6%

ProPublica - By Justin Elliott - 7/2/2026, 9:00 AM

Unattributed Quote 22.8% - Appeal to Authority 22.7% - Biased Writer Voice 22.3%

Last month, my colleagues and I published an investigation into a Texas oil refinery startup, America First Refining, that had secretly gotten investment from Donald Trump Jr. We discovered a saga involving the Trump administration’s tariff policy, sanctioned Russian oil and an Indian billionaire family’s private zoo. At the center of... more

A Troubling Milestone: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification ^42.3%

ProPublica - By Ken B. Morales - 7/1/2026, 9:00 AM

Negativity Bias 29.7% - Biased Writer Voice 18.6% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 11.3%

In its term that ended last October, the Supreme Court passed an important milestone that went unnoticed: For the first time, it decided more cases by secret ballot, and with few signed opinions, than it did for cases argued in open court. These decisions, which make up the court’s “shadow docket,” are a fast-track way to get a decision... more

“That Guy Is Still Out There” ^0.9%

ProPublica - By Joaquin Sapien - 6/30/2026, 10:30 AM

Self-Serving Bias 1.8% - Confirmation Bias 1.3% - Halo Effect 1.2%

It took less than a day for the detective to give up on the case. A patrol officer had reported a harrowing, violent midnight rape in a Syracuse, New York, park. Hospital records recounted that the victim, an 18-year-old freshman at Syracuse University, was “crying uncontrollably.” Her face was bruised, and she had scratches on her neck.... more

To Protect Its Drinking Water, This City Has to Appeal to the Oil Regulators That Put It at Risk ^34.1%

ProPublica - By Nick Bowlin, Al Shaw - 6/30/2026, 10:00 AM

Negativity Bias 17.7% - Appeal to Emotion 13% - Biased Writer Voice 11.1%

To Protect Its Drinking Water, This City Has to Appeal to the Oil Regulators That Put It at Risk Oklahoma restricts oil field wastewater injection within a half-mile of public water wells. Regulators have let companies do it anyway. But in the city of Enid, officials are pushing back against one of the state’s biggest industries. This... more

Trump’s DOJ Said Police Reform Was “Factually Unjustified.” A New Report Shows Otherwise. ^21.3%

ProPublica - By Topher Sanders - 6/30/2026, 9:30 AM

Negativity Bias 25.3% - Appeal to Emotion 19.5% - Confirmation Bias 15.8%

Last year, when the Trump Justice Department dropped its oversight of troubled police departments in cities such as Louisville, Kentucky, and Minneapolis, it argued that the reform efforts were “factually unjustified.” But according to a new report by the American Civil Liberties Union, officers in those places were continuing to engage... more

Florida Is Executing Prisoners at a Record Pace, Even as Most of the U.S. Abandons the Death Penalty ^27.8%

ProPublica - By Pamela Colloff - 6/30/2026, 9:00 AM

Appeal to Emotion 45.3% - Framing Effect 19.7% - Halo Effect 5.9%

This spring, Father Dustin Feddon began waking up in the middle of the night. Heart racing, he would stand at the bathroom sink in the dark, splashing cold water on his face until the feeling passed. For about a dozen years, Feddon had visited prisoners on Florida’s death row as their appeals wound their way through the courts. Some had... more

Louisiana Supreme Court Frees Death Row Prisoner, Calling Evidence Against Him “Scientifically Indefensible” ^14.4%

ProPublica - By Richard A. Webster - 6/29/2026, 10:35 PM

Negativity Bias 24.1% - Appeal to Authority 21.9% - Appeal to Emotion 14.4%

Former Louisiana death row inmate Jimmie “Chris” Duncan is officially a free man following a unanimous ruling Monday by the Louisiana Supreme Court. In the opinion, justices upheld a lower court’s decision to toss out Duncan’s 1998 conviction for killing his former girlfriend’s toddler, Haley Oliveaux, citing flawed forensics practices... more

Native American Tribes Came Together to Secure Their Rights to Colorado River Water. Four States Are Stalling the Deal. ^32.5%

ProPublica - By Mark Olalde, Alex Hager, Sharon Chischilly - 6/29/2026, 9:00 AM

Negativity Bias 22.7% - Biased Writer Voice 14.7% - Appeal to Authority 11.3%

A deal to bring Colorado River water to Native American communities in northern Arizona, where a third of homes lack running water, is being blocked by neighboring states, caught up in a broader battle over how to divide the dwindling river. The largest tribal water rights settlement in U.S. history — the product of decades of... more

Beyond Denial: How Oil Execs Shaped a Landmark Climate Study ^28.7%

ProPublica - By Maddie Stone, Amy Westervelt, Katie Worth - 6/25/2026, 9:55 AM

Negativity Bias 15.6% - Appeal to Authority 9.6% - Biased Writer Voice 9%

It is rare that a single scientific paper shapes how people think about a challenge as daunting as climate change. But one, known as “Wedges,” published 22 years ago by researchers at Princeton University, told an irresistible story. It made solving climate change seem possible, even simple. It claimed that the world didn’t have to wait... more

Publication: ProPublica

Top reasoning patterns

Analyzed articles

Massachusetts Set to Extend Statute of Limitations for Rape Cases With DNA Evidence 33.5%

How Google and AI Nearly Made a Seasoned Reporter Spiral 21.6%

A Troubling Milestone: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification 42.3%

“That Guy Is Still Out There” 0.9%

To Protect Its Drinking Water, This City Has to Appeal to the Oil Regulators That Put It at Risk 34.1%

Trump’s DOJ Said Police Reform Was “Factually Unjustified.” A New Report Shows Otherwise. 21.3%

Florida Is Executing Prisoners at a Record Pace, Even as Most of the U.S. Abandons the Death Penalty 27.8%

Louisiana Supreme Court Frees Death Row Prisoner, Calling Evidence Against Him “Scientifically Indefensible” 14.4%

Native American Tribes Came Together to Secure Their Rights to Colorado River Water. Four States Are Stalling the Deal. 32.5%

Beyond Denial: How Oil Execs Shaped a Landmark Climate Study 28.7%