For educators

Real claims make the best lessons

Every case on the record is a ready-made media-literacy lesson: a real claim students have probably seen, traced to what the evidence actually says. All of it is free to use in class under CC BY 4.0.

The distortion curriculum

Eleven ways claims get bent, each with a plain explanation and real examples. Teach one a week, or use them as a checklist students apply to their own feeds.

Exaggeration Subgroup generalization Species extrapolation Omitted qualifier Causal overreach Marketing as evidence Quote manipulation Date or context mismatch Visual manipulation Fabrication Temporal overreach

Classroom activities

Place the needle

Show a claim, hide the verdict, and have students place it on the scale and defend their reasoning before the reveal. Daily Calibration runs this automatically.

Name the trick

Give students a claim and the taxonomy, and have them identify the distortion. Spot the Distortion is the same exercise, one a day.

Walk the chain

Hand out a printable study sheet and have students trace the claim to its primary source, deciding at each hop whether the meaning held.

Printable study sheets

Each sheet leads with discussion prompts, then the verdict, evidence, and source chain on one page. Open one and print to PDF.

Partially accurate but misleadingResearchers have developed one or more injectable hydrogels that regenerate or structurall…open sheet →

Mostly accurateAnthropic released a model named Claude Haiku 5.5. Anthropic describes it as its cheapest …open sheet →

AccurateJeff Bezos stated in a public interview that AI-driven productivity gains could allow some…open sheet →

Mostly accurateAdding water to a finished rinse-off cleansing product reduces the effectiveness of its pr…open sheet →

Mostly accurateSpaceX signed an agreement to acquire Grain Management's nationwide 800 MHz spectrum licen…open sheet →

Mostly accurateOn the closing of the Paramount Skydance acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, David Zasl…open sheet →

Every case has a sheet at /case/ID/sheet, and the whole archive is downloadable from the data page.