A plague is upon our land! A plague of poor critical thinking skills and badly constructed articles passing as “journalism”. Fortunately, an unlikely hero has emerged from the future to help identify poorly constructed arguments, and malfeasance intended to sway opinions, rather than report on facts. And its name is…Artificial Intelligence! AI is an objective observer and an astute identifier of logical fallacies.

Logic in natural language is a skill that can be learned – even by us mere humans. The slides in the following posts include an example of the logical fallacy taken from the text of the article, a description of the type of logical fallacy being used, and a short definition of the fallacy itself, to help faciliate identifying these fallacies on our own.

Use the prompt pinned below and then copy and paste the URL of any article into it. You could also paste a podcast transcript, essay, etc.