Provenance and explainability are how you disagree rationally

Showing what is evidence and what is not, what we know and what we do not know (not knowing can be a fact), is how debate stays logical; the newsroom's rules 'not found is not false' and 'a finding with no answer is just a complaint' are the working form.

Decided by. Dinis, in Follow the rabbit holes; sits next to a-claim-earns-its-status-by-being-refutable

Where it comes from

Follow the rabbit holes How you can disagree rationally (article)
My memory, checked every claim checked before publication; 'Not found is not false' (newsroom)
Reviews on the record 'A finding with no answer is just a complaint' (newsroom)
Where the thinking came from Popper, and the questioning (article)

What it answers in the 2018 book

Facts answered outline, Concepts
Feedback loops answered outline, Concepts

Where it goes

Chapter Facts, evidence and the record, part Direction and judgement (drafting); topic Facts, evidence and the record.

Other ideas proposed for the same chapter: Make fact-based decisions: think out loud and let the record check you, Ask to be corrected, and print the corrections with their sources, Question everything: a claim earns its status by being refutable, Questioning, and asking for the evidence, is one of the most important skills now, They care about privacy; Snapchat's best feature was that images disappear, Following a rabbit hole is now a prompt away; build the agents and tools that find where things come from, Managing information so that decisions can be made is what work is, What cost hundreds of thousands of pounds is now a brief and a feedback loop, Be the best-prepared person in the room: briefings, pre-briefings, follow-ups, Provenance is a graph: where a claim came from is a chain of edges back to its source, A graph is trustworthy not because it is right but because it is where users, experts and tests can correct it, Stale pages become false memories, so a memory must say where each thing came from and name its own errors.

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