Bias Defense Checklist

Quick Mental Armor for a Noisy World

Before you react, repost, rage, or rally, run the signal through this firewall:

1. Emotional Trigger Check

• ❏ Am I feeling first and thinking second?
  (If yes, pause.)

2. Confirmation Trap Check

• ❏ Is this just telling me what I already want to believe?

3. Source Trustworthiness Check

• ❏ Would I trust this message if it came from my “enemy”?

4. Demonization Filter

• ❏ Is this painting “them” as evil, stupid, or less human without serious proof?

5. Repetition Red Flag

• ❏ Am I seeing/hearing the same frames, same buzzwords, over and over?

6. First Anchor Awareness

• ❏ Is this the first take I’ve heard? Am I still locked onto it even after new information?

7. Tribal Loyalty Alarm

• ❏ Am I defending this because it’s true… or because it’s ours?

Rules of Engagement

• If you check 3 or more boxes: Assume manipulation is happening.
• If you check 5 or more: Drop the story and walk away.

Control your signal. Control yourself.

Written by makerminx

Cook, gardener, crafter, computer programmer, amateur cryptographer, freethinker, former military officer. Welcome to my little corner of the internet, where we believe that knowledge is power and disinformation is its shadow.