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Spotting bias & manipulation: example

#1 · October 27, 2022, 9:00 am

Quote from Lucio Buffalmano on October 27, 2022, 9:00 am
Listen to this for a few seconds.
See if you can spot the key section that's a red flag of bias and manipulation attempt:
https://youtu.be/Np1X1V5dz7s?t=56
almost as soon as the ink dried on their new apartment lease matthew shifted from being a dream come true to a real-life nightmare. He became overbearing and controlling cutting off her contact with her family he would have sole access to all credit and debit cards and would even take the keys to their truck while working in a patrol vehicle jessica was a prisoner in her own home and seeking to regain some control over her life jessica had an affair which resulted in another pregnancy
Can you spot it?
Here it is:
seeking to regain some control over her life Jessica had an affair
How can this narrator know for sure that Jessica had an affair to "regain some control over her life"?
He doesn't know.
Edit: to be fair, let's say "chances are low he knows, and extremely low that he knows with a degree of reliability".
But he's trying to justify her actions so that his video can get more views by eliminating shades of grey and making her seem more like an innocent and "good" victim, and him more like an abusive asshole.
If you keep on listening, both before and after, you'll see a lot more examples of bias getting even more obvious, including:
matt would uncharacteristically raise the child as his own: so this guy does a supposedly good thing, to choose to raise the child of her unfaithful wife as his own, but to frame it as an exception for an exceptionally huge asshole, he had to put the word "uncharacteristically" there
much more characteristically matthew began his own affair less than 6 months after getting married: so how funny, she was cheating much sooner than he did, had unprotected sex when cheating, and now that he does it, it's not because maybe these 2 just weren't faithful (and she may have started it), but it's "typical of this asshole to do so", and "less than 6 months after getting married"
Please note that the guy in the video may be an asshole indeed.
But a critical thinker who can spot the manipulative frame by now should know he cannot trust the narrator.

Listen to this for a few seconds.

See if you can spot the key section that's a red flag of bias and manipulation attempt:

almost as soon as the ink dried on their new apartment lease matthew shifted from being a dream come true to a real-life nightmare. He became overbearing and controlling cutting off her contact with her family he would have sole access to all credit and debit cards and would even take the keys to their truck while working in a patrol vehicle jessica was a prisoner in her own home and seeking to regain some control over her life jessica had an affair which resulted in another pregnancy

Can you spot it?

Here it is:

seeking to regain some control over her life Jessica had an affair

How can this narrator know for sure that Jessica had an affair to "regain some control over her life"?

He doesn't know.
Edit: to be fair, let's say "chances are low he knows, and extremely low that he knows with a degree of reliability".

But he's trying to justify her actions so that his video can get more views by eliminating shades of grey and making her seem more like an innocent and "good" victim, and him more like an abusive asshole.

If you keep on listening, both before and after, you'll see a lot more examples of bias getting even more obvious, including:

matt would uncharacteristically raise the child as his own: so this guy does a supposedly good thing, to choose to raise the child of her unfaithful wife as his own, but to frame it as an exception for an exceptionally huge asshole, he had to put the word "uncharacteristically" there
much more characteristically matthew began his own affair less than 6 months after getting married: so how funny, she was cheating much sooner than he did, had unprotected sex when cheating, and now that he does it, it's not because maybe these 2 just weren't faithful (and she may have started it), but it's "typical of this asshole to do so", and "less than 6 months after getting married"

Please note that the guy in the video may be an asshole indeed.

But a critical thinker who can spot the manipulative frame by now should know he cannot trust the narrator.

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