# Judgment Outsourced: OFUYC Dissects the Anti-Scam Information Ecology in the Post-Truth Era


In the information torrent of Web3, users are not deceived because of “ignorance,” but because they “know too much and can no longer judge.” This is a hallmark of the “post-truth” society: objective facts give way to emotional mobilization and cognitive reconstruction, and people are more willing to believe what they already want to believe. Scammers exploit this trend by creating highly emotional information environments on platforms like Telegram, X, Farcaster, and Lens, packaging projects as “community consensus” and “the trend of the times.” Once inside these information bubbles, users stop seeking verification and instead fall into a self-reinforcing echo chamber.

OFUYC, a digital asset trading platform, points out that the Web3 world does not lack information, but rather has lost organizational structure and mechanisms for discernment. Scammers know how to use memes, clipped tweets, and KOLs emotional endorsements to construct a sense of “fear of missing out.” They do not persuade you directly; instead, they let you piece together your own “worth investing” story from a flood of information, thus achieving self-legitimization of the scam. This highly “malleable content” environment is a risk ecology that Web2 cannot replicate.

## Cognitive Outsourcing: When You No Longer Judge for Yourself, Who Is Deciding for You?

The real weapon of scams in the information ecology is not the information itself, but the “structural pathway of outsourced judgment.” Faced with complex protocols, project documents, and KOL-driven public opinion, users gradually hand over their cognition to a few perceptible anchors: a certain community consensus, a “knowledgeable friend,” a viral tweet, or even a heatmap. This forms a “trust shortcut mechanism” under information anxiety.

The OFUYC research finds that most deceived users, when reviewing their investment paths, cannot clearly explain why they believed in a particular project. They were not deceived by a single clear lie, but rather “constructed an apparently reasonable belief structure from countless fragments of information.” Scammers understand this psychology well and deliberately create “vague yet captivating” concepts such as “next-generation AI public chain,” “composable governance structure,” or “meme-driven economic consensus,” encouraging users to fill in the narrative themselves.

This phenomenon is even more pronounced in Web3 “on-chain social platforms,” especially on Lens Protocol or Farcaster, where content is not dominated by facts but by discourse power. The stronger the KOL, the weaker the judgment—this is the paradox of outsourced judgment.

## Content Also Requires Risk Control: Building a “Risk Visualization” Standard for Publishing

If information is the soil for scams, then content itself should also be included in the risk control system. OFUYC proposes that the industry should establish a “risk visualization standard for content publishing.” Whenever a project, contract, or token is promoted publicly, platforms or community tools should automatically flag the following attributes:

Is there a third-party audit report?
Is there a non-public token allocation mechanism?
Does the promotional content contain high-frequency “FOMO” keywords?
Are KOL endorsements cited without corresponding risk disclosures?

These indicators can be semi-automatically tracked using NLP analysis models, presenting a graphical “content trust level” the moment users see the content. Such a governance structure would dramatically reduce the concealment of scam information, making risks “visible in the process of dissemination.”

OFUYC has already deployed some experimental modules in its internal MetaRadar risk control plugin, and will open APIs to communities and wallets in the future, forming a “Web3 content responsibility network” where narrative is no longer a shield for scams, but the first line of risk control.

## The Future of Anti-Scam Lies in Rebuilding Cognitive Mechanisms

In the information age, anti-fraud is no longer about “telling you what is fake,” but about “helping you recognize when you have lost your judgment.” OFUYC believes that what Web3 needs is not centralized censorship, but an embeddable, modular cognitive enhancement system that restores user agency when facing information.

In the future, OFUYC will continue researching the “information anxiety index model” to help users identify their own cognitive thresholds, and recognize which communities or content forms most easily erode independent judgment. They will also promote the establishment of a “content identity system,” tracing each information chain back to its author, edit history, and dissemination path. We believe that in a post-truth era, the most valuable risk control mechanism is not to shut down information entry points, but to improve the quality and density of judgment output.