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⁠99%1 analyzed article/video30 analyzed words

BS Summary: These CalMatters Digital Democracy results contain 1 faulty reasoning type, including Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 100% saturation with 30 hits. Analysis detected 30 faulty-reasoning hits from 30 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 100% and a BS Rank of ⁠98% (544 of 23,510 speakers). This CalMatters Digital Democracy is worse (more manipulative) than 97.70% of the peer group.

CalMatters Digital Democracy

Speaker ranking list

Percentile	Speaker	BS Score
⁠0%	The Brookings Institution	1%
⁠0%	Gen Jack Keane	1%
⁠0%	Shahryar Yadegar	1%
⁠0%	Mike Muse	1%
⁠0%	Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Inc.	1%
⁠98%	CalMatters Digital Democracy (selected)	100%
⁠100%	5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals	100%
⁠100%	55th Civil District Court Judge Lotosha Lewis Payne	100%
⁠100%	314 Action Fund	100%
⁠100%	21 Grams	100%
⁠100%	1X representative	100%

Speaker details

Total words: 30

Article count: 1

Authors

Ryan Sabalow

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Most California lawmakers never buck their party. These few do⁠^30%

CalMatters⁠^36%By Ryan Sabalow⁠^31%7/20/2026, 12:30:00 PM