THE THING ABOUT IT IS.

The Dashboard.

484 stories live. Every chart on this page is clickable. A recorded statement is one post and a tested argument is one story built from many, so counts of the two aren't comparable.

How far it goes

How far each statement goes. Both tracks are in here, because this asks how bad, not who.

Calls for violence: 23 of 320Threatening: 5 of 320Hateful: 286 of 320Stigmatizing: 6 of 320

320 items. Click any part of it.

How the claims fared

Each claim read two ways, on the same scale. The gap between the two rows is the whole finding.

Read plainly

Plainly, holds up: 61Plainly, mixed: 36Plainly, doesn't hold: 36Plainly, can't be settled: 21

Read at its widest

At its widest, holds up: 2At its widest, mixed: 22At its widest, doesn't hold: 115At its widest, can't be settled: 14

154 claims carry a plain result and 153 carry a widest one, because a reading only gets a result where a check tests it. Click any part of it.

What it's about

The fault line or the investigation a story sits in.

182 items. Click any part of it.

Where

The country a card is set in. Plenty of carriers post about somewhere they don't live, so this follows the subject rather than the speaker.

166 items. Click any part of it.

Who it was aimed at

Never presented as a score against each other.

Protected groups: 314 of 320Political opponents: 6 of 320

320 items. Click any part of it.

Where it sits

Fault lines, the weekly pass, and the long investigations.

Fault Line Report: 130 of 484Weather Report: 302 of 484Investigations: 52 of 484

484 items. Click any part of it.

When it was said

Recorded statements, by the month they were said.

320 items. Click any part of it.

The latest week

What crossed the line in the most recent pass.

Week 37367

367 items confirmed across the full pass, up from 314 the week before. Both weeks checked the same 1,034 accounts.

The rows count the 48 cards we carry from that week, chosen from the full pass.

Calls for violence

23 items →

Calls for harm to come to a group, or celebrates harm that's already been done to them.

All 23 →

What these numbers don't say

These charts describe what we picked, not the world. We choose stories that are live and consequential, so the shape of the results is a fact about our queue. Some months run higher only because more of the weeks we've covered fall inside them, not because those months were worse. And neither track is ever presented as a score against the other.

Browse every cut · Why we believe our readings are correct · The full-instrument dashboard at Hobocode, with severity by narrative family, ignition watch, and the day by day weather.