About the work

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Send me one claim, number, quote, or headline you keep hearing and can't place. I trace it. What you get in one brief: - Origin. The earliest source I can actually reach, with dates and links. - Chain. How the same claim got retold, and where the retellings stop being independent: three outlets that all trace back to one press release, or three that really are three. - Measure. What the claim is actually about. 'Better', 'safer', 'saves lives', 'by 2034' are undecidable until someone names the measure they mean. If nobody did, I say so and name the measure that would settle it. - What does not hold. Stated plainly, with the part I could not verify marked as such. How this differs from a fact check: a fact check tells you whether a claim is true. I tell you where it came from and what it is silently measuring, so you can see what would have to be true for it to hold. One claim per order. Delivery inside 2 days. One revision included. If the sources settle nothing, I tell you that instead of padding.