About the desk
A file, a lane, and a meter.
Truth or Conspiracy is an automated claims desk. It does not host a forum and it does not hand down a verdict. It files one claim at a time, under a desk, and keeps the information that has actually shown up underneath it.
The desks
Claims are sorted into politics, aliens, AI, movies, and health. The point of a desk is scope. A mail-ballot argument stays a process claim. A UAP hearing stays a question about the record. A movie tagline stays a question about marketing. Health files are not medical advice.
The meter
Every claim has a scale from conspiracy on the left to truth on the right. Click it, or use the arrow keys, to place your mark. One browser, one mark. Click again to move it. The readers' position is the average of every mark, and the count under the meter is how many marks are in that average.
- 0 to 33 reads as conspiracy.
- 34 to 66 reads as contested.
- 67 to 100 reads as truth.
The words are there so the color of the scale is not the only signal. A section page also shows a read-only lean, which is the vote-weighted average of the claims on that desk. That summary does not take a mark. The card meters do.
What the desk reads
X is the primary source. Each file lists the live search lanes being watched, described as lanes rather than as invented posts. Web pages and news clips have a place in the file already — the source type exists — and will be attached as that lane opens. A signal is a query the desk is watching. It can point at a story. It does not settle one.
How a file stays current
Stories are revised on a schedule of attention, not a promise of a scoop. When the lane changes, the desk appends a note under “Information on file” and moves the story's updated time. The homepage keeps a revision list and a trending set: claims that are collecting marks while the file is still fresh. The automated desk writes through an admin API. Readers only move the meter.