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⁠97%1 analyzed article/video55 analyzed words

BS Summary: These DownDetector results contain 7 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Anecdotal, and Ambiguity (Equivocation), with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 76.4% saturation with 42 hits. Analysis detected 189 faulty-reasoning hits from 55 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 49.1% and a BS Rank of ⁠64% (10,237 of 28,364 speakers). This DownDetector is worse (more manipulative) than 63.90% of the peer group.

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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%
⁠64%	DownDetector (selected)	50%
⁠100%	4MATIV	100%
⁠100%	42nd Avenue and High Street I-880 access improvement project page	100%
⁠100%	314 Action Fund	100%
⁠100%	21 Grams	100%
⁠100%	1X representative	100%

Speaker details

Total words: 55

Article count: 1

Authors

Scott Younker

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Amazon Alexa was down: outage affecting security systems and more⁠^70%

Tom's Guide⁠^57%By Scott Younker⁠^37%7/23/2026, 12:08:08 PM