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Definition

Ad Populum is a Latin word that means “Appeal to Majority” or “Appeal to Popular Belief”. Sometimes it’s also called “Bandwagon Fallacy”

The appeal to the majority is simply saying that since most people think or believe a certain way, that that way must be correct. Logically, it is a form of a red herring, in that it is irrelevant how many people believe a certain position. Truth exists outside of popular consent. Many people are susceptible to this type of fallacy because they want to fit in.

How We Choose

We’ve selected the top most engaging news articles on Twitter from Australian news media. The selection criteria are based on logical fallacies statistics found in the retweets and comments.

Critical Concentration

By The Age: “Every few months, we are forced to listen to an old white famous man take to a public platform to claim that ‘cancel culture’ and the ‘PC Police’ are ruining…”

The response contains approximately 49% of comments that look a lot like fallacious reasoning of any type our detector can recognise. Spread between reasoning type groups:

How We Choose

We’ve selected the top most engaging news articles on Twitter from Australian news media. The selection criteria are based on logical fallacies statistics found in the retweets and comments.

Critical Concentration

From The Age: “Jayne Hrdlicka was forced to pause at times during her speech when she was drowned out by booing when she mentioned the COVID-19 vaccine rollout and the Victorian state government…”

The response contains approximately 37% of comments that look a lot like fallacious reasoning of any type our detector can recognise. Spread between reasoning type groups:

Best of the month

Here we selected the best pieces of news posted in January 2021 in five categories: Best of the best, Triggering, Thoughtful, Emotional and Concervative. Enjoy!

How We Choose

We’ve selected the top most engaging news articles on Twitter from Australian news media. The selection criteria are based on logical fallacies statistics found in the retweets and comments.

Critical Concentration

From newspaper “The Australian”: “The Victorian people who endured an extended Covid lockdown and the nation’s contact tracing teams are this newspaper’s Australians of the Year.”

How We Choose

We’ve selected the top most engaging news articles on Twitter from Australian news media. The selection criteria are based on logical fallacies statistics found in the retweets and comments.

Critical Concentration

“‘I’m in the mood to lose my job’: CCTV shows police officer grabbing Aboriginal teen, threatening others in NT watch house…”

The response contains approximately 45% of comments that look a lot like fallacious reasoning of any type our detector can recognise. Spread between reasoning type groups: