Hype Check Cut through the hype, once a week
The feeds reward the loudest take, not the correct one. Hype Check Live is the calm, weekly counterweight: the biggest claims, scored real or hype, with the receipts.
You do not have time to chase down every viral claim across every field. That is the job we take off your plate. One email, five or six claims, each scored and sourced, so you spend less time guessing and more time knowing.
How each edition works
Same format every week, a fresh set of claims. Each item gives you the claim in plain terms, a two or three sentence check, the source, and a hype score from zero to one hundred. Low means mostly real, high means mostly hype. Five or six claims, one per domain, in about four minutes.
Why it holds up
Every number is real and citable; nothing is invented. We check claims, not people, so politics rides in only as a checkable number chosen from across the spectrum. The score follows a published, repeatable method. And we credit the underhyped as readily as we flag the overhyped, because honest scorekeeping cuts both ways.
Common questions
Why a score instead of just analysis?
A number is fast to read and hard to spin. It tells you where a claim lands before you read a word, then the check explains why.
Is it negative all the time?
No. We flag the underhyped too, the real things that got ignored because they were not loud. Honest scorekeeping cuts both ways.
Who is behind it?
Mark Lynd, a 5x CEO, CIO, and CISO and keynote speaker who has spent a career separating signal from noise.
Cut through the hype, free
Join readers who want the hype scored honestly, once a week.