Speaker summary

⁠92%1 analyzed article/video92 analyzed words

BS Summary: These Matthew Cortland results contain 1 faulty reasoning type, including Post Hoc (False Cause), with Post Hoc (False Cause) as the most egregious example at 100% saturation with 92 hits. Analysis detected 92 faulty-reasoning hits from 92 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 100% and a BS Rank of ⁠91% (2,425 of 24,611 speakers). This Matthew Cortland is worse (more manipulative) than 90.20% of the peer group.

Matthew Cortland

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%
⁠91%	Matthew Cortland (selected)	100%
⁠100%	55th Civil District Court Judge Lotosha Lewis Payne	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: 92

Article count: 1

Authors

Beth Mole

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Ars Technica⁠^20%By Beth Mole⁠^30%7/21/2026, 7:39:10 PM