content-research-and-sourcinglisted

The research-and-sourcing craft — verify the substance of a piece before it publishes: trace stats to primary sources, kill zombie stats, catch AI-hallucinated citations, and attribute properly on social. Use when someone has a stat-heavy draft to make publish-ready, wants to check if a viral statistic is real, asks how to cite sources, used AI research output, or is making health/finance claims. Uses the FACTS framework. Reads brand-profile + the piece's format skill first. AI-supplied citations are guilty until verified; a working link is not verification; aggregators are leads, not the source; where none exists, reframe as owned observation or commission data. The agent verifies where it has search; the human clicks links where it doesn't; verification happens before scheduling; WoopSocial publishes. Never invents studies or reuses retracted stats. Distinct from idea-generation, data-and-original-research, quote-cards, and infographic-and-data-viz.
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# content-research-and-sourcing The **verification craft** — find the load-bearing claims, ascend to the primary source, check freshness and context, test AI output hard, and show your sources. The agent verifies where it has search; the **human clicks where it doesn't**; verification happens **before scheduling**; **WoopSocial publishes**. (Craft skill — no tool file.) ## The POV: a post is a stack of claims wearing a voice — verify the stack 2026 made verification structural: generative search tools answered **over 60% of tested news-citation queries incorrectly** (CJR); fabricated references **surged ~12-fold since 2023** — 1 in 277 PubMed papers now carries one (Columbia/Lancet audit); a major consultancy shipped a report where **only 5 of 45 citations were accurate**; and Google's AI Overview cited an April Fool's satire as fact — citogenesis laundering errors into apparent consensus. Four disciplines follow. **(1) AI-supplied citations are guilty until verified — and a working link is not verification:** 29% of fabricated citations carry real DOIs resolving to *unrelated* papers (identifier hijacking); the source must exist AND say what's claimed. **(2) Ubiquity is not evidence:** the goldfish-attention-span class of zombie stats survives on repetition — the tell is a citation trail that circles blogs and never lands on a named study. **(3) Aggregators are leads, not sources:** cite the primary most competitors never read — differentiation at near-zero cost, and AI an