Truth
Verification, context, and limits keep the story from being swallowed by its own headline.
Algorithm
The truth was published. It was not recommended.
Five editorial days
Visibility matters. Its price is not fixed in advance.
Run a small independent newsroom through five days in which truth, reach, trust, and room for the next story keep colliding. Every publication opens something and spends something.
Beneath the metrics
Visibility is not the opposite of truth
The problem begins when the system signal becomes the only editor. This simulation separates four things a newsroom must hold together in practice.
Reach
A story without a public struggles to have consequences. The question is how that public reaches it.
Trust
Trust grows slowly and carries the consequences of an old publication into every new one.
Survival
A newsroom's time, staff, and attention are finite, even when the subject is important.
The simulation does not judge the value of subjects or people's experiences. It shows the consequences of editorial and distribution decisions.