BS Summary: This article contains 17 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Confirmation Bias, and Framing Effect, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 20% saturation with 150 hits. Analysis detected 734 faulty-reasoning hits from 750 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 31.3% and a BS Rank of 25% (21,075 of 28,112 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 75.00% of the article peer group.

A Myspace comeback? 
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Social media firms sued over deaths of four teens as child‑safety pressure intensifies 
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NBC New York’s Ted Greenberg reports. 
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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 13.3%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.9%Confirmation Bias13.3%This article: 0.0%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.4%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 13.6%Max Molski: 1.5%NBC 6 South Florida: 2.1%Availability Heuristic13.6%This article: 0.0%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.4%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 2.9%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.6%Hindsight Bias2.9%This article: 0.0%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 1.2%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 6.7%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 4.7%Framing Effect6.7%This article: 0.0%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.3%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 1.5%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.3%Status Quo Bias1.5%This article: 0.0%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.0%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 4.1%Max Molski: 8.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 2.6%Optimism Bias4.1%This article: 3.6%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.9%Pessimism Bias3.6%This article: 20.0%Max Molski: 18.6%NBC 6 South Florida: 9.8%Negativity Bias20.0%This article: 0.0%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.4%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.4%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.0%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.4%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.1%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 1.2%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.0%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 3.2%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 1.2%Recency Bias3.2%This article: 0.0%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.3%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.4%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.0%Straw Man0.0%This article: 3.6%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 3.8%Appeal to Authority3.6%This article: 0.0%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.5%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.2%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.0%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 2.9%Max Molski: 4.7%NBC 6 South Florida: 1.5%Hasty Generalization2.9%This article: 0.0%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.0%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.2%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 1.9%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 3.8%Appeal to Emotion1.9%This article: 0.0%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.1%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 6.3%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 2.1%Post Hoc (False Cause)6.3%This article: 0.0%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.2%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.0%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.0%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 3.2%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.8%Anecdotal3.2%This article: 0.0%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 6.1%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 1.4%Ambiguity (Equivocation)6.1%This article: 0.0%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.0%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.0%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 2.0%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 1.9%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 1.0%Quote-first Misdirection1.9%This article: 3.1%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 3.6%Biased Writer Voice3.1%This article: 0.0%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.8%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.2%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.0%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Max Molski: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 1.5%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

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Speakers

6speakers16%attributed speech633writer words
Selected voice

Chelsea Handler

100%flagged-word coverage
40 attributed words34% of attributed speech72% writer coverage
0%17.5%35.0%Quote-first Misdirection+35.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%Chelsea Handler: 35.0%35.0%Biased Writer Voice-3.6 ptsWriter: 3.6%Chelsea Handler: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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