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Oct 22 · Macron moves to ban 'illegitimate' protests after France's riots

Tangle: Suspension of the rules: riots in France (segment from 34:54)

Grade F (52/100). Panel lays out how the school protests grew, then weighs the claim that looters are mostly children of immigrants, flagging its own uncertainty; two unsourced figures and one loaded aside

Lehrer score 52/100 (−18 unnamed source/unsourced figure: [36:21] 'injuries caused by LBDs increased from one in 2017 and two in 2016 to 25 in 2018' ('a specific stat', no source named); −18 unnamed source/unsourced figure: [50:01] 'this already has more arrests than that, more stores looted' (comparison with the 2005 riots, no source; ABC counts more than 2,500 arrests); −12 loaded wording: [55:02] 'what Trump and Vance was doing, which was like stoking a race war' (host)). Fixed scale: 90+ A, 80s B, 70s C, 60s D, under 60 F → F.

[36:21] 'injuries caused by LBDs increased from one in 2017 and two in 2016 to 25 in 2018' ('a specific stat', no source named); [50:01] 'this already has more arrests than that, more stores looted' (comparison with the 2005 riots, no source; ABC counts more than 2,500 arrests); [55:02] 'what Trump and Vance was doing, which was like stoking a race war' (host)

Splits: Panel lays out how the school protests grew, then weighs the claim that looters are mostly children of immigrants, flagging its own uncertainty; two unsourced figures and one loaded aside

  • Broken. Rule: unnamed source/unsourced figure ([36:21] 'injuries caused by LBDs increased from one in 2017 and two in 2016 to 25 in 2018' ('a specific stat', no source named))
  • Broken. Rule: unnamed source/unsourced figure ([50:01] 'this already has more arrests than that, more stores looted' (comparison with the 2005 riots, no source; ABC counts more than 2,500 arrests))
  • Broken. Rule: loaded wording ([55:02] 'what Trump and Vance was doing, which was like stoking a race war' (host))

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