Claims extracted
23
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
4%
1 of 23 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
withheld
no quote in the article backed the model's score
Publisher signals
66/100
New York Post's corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
1
Entertainment
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
A divorce expert went viral for claiming men are “weaponizing pooping” — causing a major stink in the Battle of the Sexes.
asserted
men → go → Sexes
Olivia Howell, author of “Divorce Happens,” claimed in a controversial article that men have used the bathroom for extended periods to avoid spending time with their families and to shirk life’s many responsibilities.
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men → happen → responsibilities
“A husband walks through the door as an active member of a family unit, shuts it behind him, and immediately becomes a private citizen,” she wrote in a Sept. 18 Substack post.
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she → walk → post
“See, the thing is: a basement husband can theoretically be told to come upstairs.
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husband → see → ?
A garage husband can be interrupted.
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husband → interrupt → ?
A workout can be postponed.
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workout → postpone → ?
Headphones can be removed.
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Headphones → remove → ?
A hobby can be negotiated around.
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hobby → negotiate → ?
The bathroom is different because you cannot reasonably deny another human behind access to the toilet.
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you → deny → toilet
‘I have to go to the bathroom’ is one of the most powerful sentences available to a person who lives with other people,” Howell wrote.
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Howell → go → people
The crappy behavior, she claimed, has been aided and abetted by humanity’s development of the smart phone.
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she → claim → phone
“Now a man can disappear with an iPhone and who the f–k knows.
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who → disappear → iPhone
He could be reading Reddit, checking the stock market, watching a 45-minute YouTube video about electric guitars, arguing about the Mets, playing a game, looking at porn, answering emails, or maybe, just maybe, he’s experiencing an intestinal crisis,” Howell said.
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Howell → read → crisis
“This is the genius of the bathroom as domestic escape hatch: it comes with almost unlimited plausible deniability,” Howell wrote.
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Howell → come → deniability
The article caused a stir on social media — drawing ire for seemingly castigating men for something they sometimes simply have to do.
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they → cause → something
“Today I have learned that there is a new tool that the Patriarchy uses to keep subjugating women.
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Patriarchy → learn → women
‘Weaponized pooping,’” joked one poster on the platform.
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poster → weaponize → platform
“Holy s–t this article is insane, I especially love this part where the women seems to be FUMING that a man in the toilet cannot be disturbed,” one reply-guy stated in a thread on X.
“How tf can you even take feminism seriously anymore at this point,” chimed another X poster.
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poster → love → point
Others made the author and the subject the butt of their jokes.
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author → make → jokes
I am god’s strongest soldier OORAH,” one joker posted on X.
“If your husband is weaponizing pooping by staying in there for hours, don’t overreact.
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husband → post → hours
He will get hemorrhoids.
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He → get → hemorrhoids
Wrath is God’s to give, not ours,” another poster wrote.
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poster → give → ?
Howell, a mother of two, split with her husband in 2019.
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Howell → split → 2019
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