Seeing the many sides of a story before it hardens into truth.
A creative and analytical project from Dico Verum, examining how public narratives are shaped. The stories change. The patterns do not.
A long-form piece read through six analytical lenses, with a myth-vs-truth toggle on the most contested passages and a 1989–2025 timeline.
Six lenses for reading a public narrative.
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Framing
How presentation shapes interpretation.
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Archetypes
The roles people are cast into: hero, villain, victim, saviour.
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Collective Belief
Shared assumptions presented as fact.
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Expectation
What the framing leads a reader to anticipate.
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Themes
Recurring narrative patterns that give events moral shape.
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Symbolism
Loaded imagery that carries meaning beyond surface fact.
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The Facets Checker.
Paste a headline, a press release, a paragraph from a court report. A deterministic, rule-based check reads it against the six lenses and flags phrases drawn from published media and editorial guidance.
Not AI. A hardcoded checklist. Nothing leaves your browser.
The next piece is in development. To be notified when it publishes, write to lynette@dicoverum.org.