Who is worth listening to

Receipts arithmetic — no model opinion. Two lanes, never mixed: originators hold cascade roots via echo attribution (their durable pages live at people); messengers are the accounts that surface stories — ranked by roots held, public-first evidence, then maturity-weighted case membership. “Public first” counts cases where an account has the earliest non-echo evidence publication timestamp; it does not measure when ainews discovered the story.

Originators — attributed roots (echo-minted, origination lane)