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No threat to the public,' NYPD says after responding to Barnard College bomb scare
Victoria Arancio
ABC News
March 5, 2025
Viewpoint Detected:
Moderate
Fallacies Detected:
Biased Language, Ambiguity Fallacy
credAIble Evaluation:
The article covers a bomb threat at Barnard College and the subsequent NYPD response. However, the use of biased language—such as referring to protesters as “masked disruptors”—frames them negatively without further clarification. The ambiguity fallacy appears in the connection between the protest and the bomb threat, as it is unclear whether the two are directly related or coincidental. These rhetorical choices subtly influence the reader’s perception of events, reducing the neutrality of the report.
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