Raw Story⁠96%

Trump's company-pumping posts compared to sex work by fuming critic: 'It's a mess' ⁠66%

By Kathleen Culliton⁠87%

8/1/2026, 4:51:15 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 20 faulty reasoning types, including Post Hoc (False Cause), Recency Bias, and False Dilemma, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 29.7% saturation with 135 hits. Analysis detected 799 faulty-reasoning hits from 455 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 52.8% and a BS Rank of ⁠66% (9,432 of 27,259 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 65.40% of the article peer group.

President Donald Trump's social media posts have been compared to sex work by a fuming critic who issued a dire warning. 
Dylan Hedler-Gaudette, a federal ethics rule expert from Project on Government Oversight, raised the alarm about a new Truth Social initiative to offer sneak peeks of Trump's posts to Wall Street traders willing to pay, the Washington Post reported Saturday. 
“The pimping of specific companies — obviously Wall Street would like to know that before other people,” said Hedler-Gaudette. 
“It’s a real mess.” 
Truth API, set to launch Aug. 1, charges hedge funds and high-frequency trading firms up to $100,000 a month for milliseconds-faster access to Trump's Truth Social posts. 
Trump owns about 41 percent of Trump Media, which means nearly half of every subscription fee flows directly to him, Judiciary Committee ranking member Rep. 
Jamie Raskin (D-MD) has warned. 
On Saturday, the Post reported Trump has begun posting more frequently about publicly traded companies — and when he issues praise he ignites "buying frenzies." 
Trump's recent approving post of Palantir Technologies and Intel both saw stock prices peak, the Post reported. 
It's not uncommon for social media firms to sell faster speed — but other social media firms are not run by the president, the report notes. 
"Truth Social doesn’t just distribute the news, it makes it, regularly rattling markets as Trump posts policy changes on everything from war to central bank leadership to tariffs," the Post reported. 
Irene Aldridge, head of Able Alpha Trading, told the Post that's why her firm won't be buying early access to Truth Social. 
“If this was the CEO a public company, this would be jail time,” said Aldridge. 
“We have a President of the United States who has the front seat to all the action, who makes all the decisions, and he’s disclosing this ahead of time to a select group.” 
The Post was unable to identify which firms have signed up for the feed. 
"Asked for comment, none of the half dozen most well known high-speed traders such as Citadel Securities and XTX Markets replied," the Post reported. 
"If just three sign up for the $100,000 a month fee, that would double revenue at Trump Media, which reported taking in $3.7 million last year." 
Update: About 30 minutes after Trump published his vow on Truth Social, former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance shared with her followers court records filed July 31 — the president's appeal to the Trump v IRS case. 
"If the $1.776b slush fund and Trump tax immunity deal are really dead," Vance wrote, "then why bother to appeal, the judges decision in Trump v IRS that ruled they were dead? 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 12.5%Kathleen Culliton: 6.6%Rawstory: 7.9%Confirmation Bias12.5%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.7%Rawstory: 0.8%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 3.7%Kathleen Culliton: 4.2%Rawstory: 4.1%Availability Heuristic3.7%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.8%Rawstory: 1.1%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.2%Rawstory: 0.9%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 2.2%Rawstory: 2.0%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 7.3%Kathleen Culliton: 11.9%Rawstory: 12.4%Framing Effect7.3%This article: 4.8%Kathleen Culliton: 0.3%Rawstory: 0.5%Loss Aversion4.8%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.0%Rawstory: 0.4%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.0%Rawstory: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 5.7%Kathleen Culliton: 0.7%Rawstory: 0.8%Optimism Bias5.7%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 1.8%Rawstory: 2.8%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 29.7%Kathleen Culliton: 17.9%Rawstory: 20.4%Negativity Bias29.7%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 2.6%Rawstory: 1.2%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 2.0%Rawstory: 2.6%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.1%Rawstory: 0.3%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.6%Rawstory: 2.4%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.3%Rawstory: 1.4%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.7%Rawstory: 0.5%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 1.0%Rawstory: 0.8%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.0%Rawstory: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 13.4%Kathleen Culliton: 2.5%Rawstory: 1.6%Recency Bias13.4%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.2%Rawstory: 0.6%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.0%Rawstory: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 5.4%Rawstory: 5.7%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.6%Rawstory: 0.6%Straw Man0.0%This article: 8.8%Kathleen Culliton: 3.4%Rawstory: 3.8%Appeal to Authority8.8%This article: 12.7%Kathleen Culliton: 2.4%Rawstory: 3.0%False Dilemma12.7%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.5%Rawstory: 1.4%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.1%Rawstory: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 5.7%Kathleen Culliton: 9.5%Rawstory: 10.7%Hasty Generalization5.7%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.9%Rawstory: 0.6%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 1.0%Rawstory: 0.8%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 6.2%Kathleen Culliton: 7.8%Rawstory: 8.8%Appeal to Emotion6.2%This article: 7.0%Kathleen Culliton: 1.5%Rawstory: 1.5%Begging the Question7.0%This article: 16.0%Kathleen Culliton: 3.7%Rawstory: 3.4%Post Hoc (False Cause)16.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.5%Rawstory: 0.5%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 5.3%Kathleen Culliton: 2.1%Rawstory: 1.6%Burden of Proof5.3%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.2%Rawstory: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.4%Rawstory: 0.4%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 3.7%Kathleen Culliton: 3.3%Rawstory: 3.4%Anecdotal3.7%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.2%Rawstory: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 1.5%Rawstory: 2.2%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.0%Rawstory: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.0%Rawstory: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.1%Rawstory: 0.2%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 7.3%Kathleen Culliton: 0.3%Rawstory: 0.1%Special Pleading7.3%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.1%Rawstory: 0.4%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 9.5%Kathleen Culliton: 4.0%Rawstory: 4.9%Unattributed Quote9.5%This article: 2.9%Kathleen Culliton: 4.4%Rawstory: 3.8%Quote-first Misdirection2.9%This article: 7.5%Kathleen Culliton: 13.5%Rawstory: 14.1%Biased Writer Voice7.5%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.6%Rawstory: 3.0%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 4.0%Rawstory: 7.5%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 2.1%Rawstory: 0.9%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 5.9%Kathleen Culliton: 0.5%Rawstory: 0.5%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…5.9%

455 words analyzed.

Speakers

4speakers45%attributed speech249writer words
Selected voice

Joyce Vance

100%flagged-word coverage
68 attributed words33% of attributed speech94% writer coverage
0%7.5%15.0%Biased Writer Voice-13.7 ptsWriter: 13.7%Joyce Vance: 0.0%0.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -10.8 ptsWriter: 10.8%Joyce Vance: 0.0%0.0%Unattributed Quote-9.6 ptsWriter: 9.6%Joyce Vance: 0.0%0.0%Quote-first Misdirection-5.2 ptsWriter: 5.2%Joyce Vance: 0.0%0.0%

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

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Analysis

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