Stop protects attention
Use the Stop move to define the claim, purpose, and verification threshold before engaging.
The move: Stop before the post writes your task for you. Use three lines: claim, purpose, confidence needed. The claim line strips away emotion and turns the post into something testable. The purpose line keeps you from spending twenty minutes on a claim that only needed a rough read, or twenty seconds on a claim that could shape a policy. The confidence line decides whether you need a source check, better coverage, or original evidence. This is why Stop comes first in SIFT. Without it, lateral reading becomes wandering. With it, every next click has a job. Prebunking adds a…
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