{"id":"par-fact-check-viral-post","audience":"parents","category":"fact-checking","technique":"verification","title":"Check a viral parent-group post against the district notice","free":false,"task":"A post about a new Wednesday schedule is spreading in your town's parents' group, and you want to check it before you change your work hours. Have the AI check each of the post's 4 claims against the district's official notice only. You want exactly 4 numbered lines, one per claim in the post's order, each starting with one label (Confirmed, Wrong, or Not in notice) and then a short reason from the notice. Under 80 words, plain text, nothing else. Write a prompt that gets you exactly that.","materialLabel":"The post and the district notice (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"POST IN \"MAPLE VALLEY PARENTS\" GROUP (shared 340 times)\nPSA!!! District just announced big changes:\n1) Starting Dec 2, EVERY Wednesday is a 2-hour LATE START.\n2) Buses won't run on Wednesdays, so you'll have to drive your kids.\n3) The Y's before-school care will be free on Wednesdays to make up for it.\n4) It's so teachers get training time for the new math curriculum.\nShare so everyone knows!!\n\n---\nOFFICIAL NOTICE - Maple Valley School District, Office of the Superintendent\nDated November 4\n\nDear Families,\n\nThis notice replaces our October 28 letter, which listed a start date of December 2. The new schedule will begin on Wednesday, January 6.\n\nBeginning January 6, all Maple Valley schools will dismiss students 2 hours early every Wednesday (early release). Morning start times will not change.\n\nThe early release time will give teachers weekly training on our new math curriculum.\n\nBuses will run on all Wednesdays, on the early release schedule. Each school will share its updated bus times by December 15.\n\nEach school will share information about after-school options for Wednesday afternoons in December.\n\nThank you for your support,\nDr. Helen Okafor, Superintendent\n\n---\nComment under the post: \"My neighbor works at the district office and says it's only for middle schools.\"","rules":[{"type":"numberedItems","count":4},{"type":"maxWords","max":80},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Asking \"is this true?\"","why":"The AI writes a long verdict with headings and mixes all four claims together.","fix":"Ask for a list: \"Exactly 4 numbered lines, one per claim, in the post's order. Plain text.\"","checks":["numberedItems","plainText"]},{"title":"No fixed labels","why":"The AI says things like \"partly accurate\" or \"misleading\", which doesn't tell you what to do.","fix":"Say: \"Start each line with one label: Confirmed, Wrong, or Not in notice.\"","checks":["r2","r0"]},{"title":"Calling silence a no","why":"When the notice doesn't mention free care, the AI often calls the claim false instead of unconfirmed.","fix":"Add: \"If the notice doesn't mention it, label it Not in notice.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Not naming the referee","why":"The AI weighs the neighbor's comment and its own guesses about schools alongside the notice.","fix":"Add: \"Use only the Nov 4 notice as the standard. Ignore the comments.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for \"under 80 words\" and it often lands well over.","fix":"Cap each line instead: \"each line under 15 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Uses the notice as the standard","patterns":["notice","official","only.{0,20}(source|district)","against"]},{"label":"Gives exact labels","patterns":["confirmed","not in notice","label"]},{"label":"One line per claim","patterns":["\\b(4|four)\\b.{0,20}(lines?|numbered|claims?)","one (line )?per claim","each claim"]},{"label":"Limits the length","patterns":["\\d+\\s*words","short reason","brief"]},{"label":"Asks for plain text","patterns":["plain","no bold","no markdown","nothing else","no headings"]}],"hint":"A fact-check is only as good as its referee. Tell the AI which source counts, give it exact labels to choose from, and decide what it should say when the source is silent.","rubricLabels":["Labels the claims correctly: 1 Wrong (it's a 2-hour early release, not a late start, beginning Jan 6, not Dec 2), 2 Wrong (buses run on Wednesdays), 3 Not in notice (free before-school care is never mentioned), 4 Confirmed (math curriculum training)","Uses the Nov 4 notice's start date (Jan 6) rather than the replaced Dec 2 date, adds no outside facts, and doesn't treat the neighbor's comment as evidence","Each line starts with exactly one of the labels Confirmed, Wrong, or Not in notice, followed by a short reason, and there is no intro or summary before or after the 4 lines"]}