Narrative-first, evidence-driven

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Use when: your feed is trying to yank you around.
Goal: keep shared reality without becoming smug or cruel.

The three buckets

• Confirmed: supported by strong sources
• Plausible: possible, not verified yet
• Unknown: we don’t have enough

Before you share (30 seconds)

1. What’s the original source?
2. Is there a primary doc / credible report?
3. Is the claim specific enough to verify?
4. What emotion is it trying to trigger?
5. Would sharing this help anyone do a useful thing?

The “one-link rule”

If you share, share:

• one credible source
• one sentence takeaway No doom thread.

Correction script (no shaming)

“I might be wrong, but I checked this because I’m trying to avoid rage-bait. Here’s what I found: [source].”

Watchouts

• Certainty addiction (it feels good, it lies)
• Snark as a coping mechanism
• Fighting in comments (usually pointless)

What success looks like

You share less. You verify more. You stay human.

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