Why I started SmokeScreen
Every outlet says it's just reporting the facts. So why does the same event read like three different scandals depending on where you see it? I got tired of asking. This is my answer.
By Kris Rodobolski · Oct 29, 2026
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I'm Kris Rodobolski. I'm not a journalist — I'm a construction guy from Milton, Ontario, who spent 25 years learning to spot the difference between what's actually on a blueprint and what someone wishes was on it. News turned out to work the same way. There's the event, and then there's the version of the event somebody needed you to see.
SmokeScreen exists for one job: separate the two. Every story here runs on facts that can be checked, and every story shows its receipts — the primary sources, documents, and full clips behind the claim — so you never have to take my word for anything. If an outlet, a party, or a viral account is pushing an agenda, we say so and show the working. If a conspiracy theory is making the rounds, we test it against evidence instead of mocking it or swallowing it. And when a controversy is real — when the documents and the data actually back it — we say that too, loudly.
No leanings. No team. The moment this site starts protecting one side, it becomes the thing it was built to expose.
Read the receipts. Check my work. Then decide for yourself — that's the whole product.
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Good. That's the job — yours and ours. Dispute the verdict, bring your own receipts, and if you're right, the correction runs on this story, in the open, with credit.
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