Healthy information environments do not require users to run forensic audits on every post they encounter. The fact that a significant portion of attentive social media users now maintain an informal checklist — AI aesthetic, timestamp consistency, absence of local news coverage — is not a sign of media literacy success. It is evidence that the environment has already degraded past the point where good-faith reading is a viable strategy . The checklist exists because it is necessary, and it is necessary because the platforms have not made it unnecessary.