The evidence ladder — The Mould Loft

1

Adjudicated

A court has ruled. State it as a finding, name the court, note any appeal.

2

On trial now

Evidence is being heard. State the claim and the defense, never the outcome.

3

Charged or filed, not tried

Say "alleges." Attribute to the filing party by name.

4

Documented, not charged

Official measurement or report. Say who measured it and when. The card every item gets What happened → what is established → what is claimed → what is open → primary source → Admiralty rating → who is affected → second-order effects → what to watch next → teaching application by age band → action available.

This is not a new device. It is the same ladder the weekly refresh and the Dallas curriculum kit already use, applied to everything.

Instrument 05 · runs in your browser

The claim linter

9 rules, each one firing on wording that claims a rung the evidence does not support. Paste anything meant for a participant to read.

Claim linter

Text

1 two overclaims · 2 the same words, negated · 3 blocked read as cancelled, plus vessel counts · 4 a total without its components · 5 unattributed measurement and instant pass-through

Why the scope is the sentence. Sample 2 contains every phrase sample 1 does. A linter that checks the page for a negator lets one correct sentence switch the whole check off — which is exactly how a false claim walks through a green gate. The negation test here runs on the clause the phrase sits in, and it reports what it spared.

Instrument 06 · runs in your browser

The Admiralty rater

Two letters, two independent judgements. Collapsing them into one number is the mistake the code exists to prevent.

Admiralty rater

Source reliability

Information credibility

B2

Jump to a corner:

Five claims that did not survive verification

Her own corrections register, carried whole. One of them would have taught a false mechanism.

The trial is not "beginning" in the sense implied

As written: A 29-state trial opens today alleging harmful design.
Verified: Jury selection began 12 August; opening statements are 18 August. And the two claim sets are different: four states bring the design and consumer-protection claims, 29 bring federal children's-privacy claims. Merging them misstates who is arguing what.

The New Mexico figure conflict is resolved — both numbers were right

The conflict: Refresh No. 01 carried $942M; other sources said $567M; one surfacing source looked unreliable.
Verified: $375M jury penalty in March plus $567M abatement order on 6 August equals $942M total. The state's own judgment announcement uses $942M in the headline and $567M in the body. Both documents can stand; the kit should state the components, not the total alone.

The Hormuz transit counts are not supported

As written: Traffic collapsed from 125–140 daily transits to a handful.
Verified: No official source gives that baseline. Transit-count baselines in circulation differ by methodology and one widely cited figure is roughly 73 per day. Use EIA throughput volumes instead — those are officially estimated and defensible in a room.

The oil-to-CPI mechanism is backwards for this month

As written: Move oil up and watch it push CPI and household costs up.
Verified: In July energy fell 1.5% while all-items rose 0.1%, and shelter did roughly two-thirds of the work. The annual energy figure is up 14.7%. A simulator without lag and directional independence would teach a mechanism the data contradicts on the day the curriculum runs.

The Meta takedown numbers are a self-report

As written: Presented alongside UN findings as equivalent evidence.
Verified: The 10.9 million and 150,000 figures come from the company's own newsroom and are not independently audited. They are usable and worth teaching — but rated B2 and labeled as a company statement, next to A1 UN measurement. That contrast is itself the lesson.