What Is
Joy Radio?

The idea in one sentence.

Joy Radio is a civic epistemology platform — a tool that uses truth-seeking as the on-ramp to digital literacy, AI fluency, and community power.

What it does.

You bring a claim — something you heard, something an institution told you, something you've always believed — and Joy Radio runs it through four planes of analysis. It returns four outputs: what's TRUE, what's PROBABLE, what's POSSIBLE, and what's ABSURD. Every search also teaches you something about how information works — building your ability to read the world more clearly over time.

Who it's for.

Everyone. Joy Radio was designed with adult learners in mind. Everything is written at an 8th grade reading level. Voice input is built in. You don't need a college degree, a library card, or an institution's permission to seek truth. You just need a question.

Who built it.

Joy Radio was built by Marc McAleavey, MSW — a Meta-Macro Social Worker, applied researcher, and founder of Joy Repair. It is powered by the Meta-Macro Social Work™ framework and the Ancestry-Focused Futures™ process, which center the idea that communities already hold the knowledge they need — they just need the tools to trust it.

The four planes.

Every claim is analyzed through four lenses: The Whole (the official story), The Parts (who made what decisions, and when), The Qualities (what evidence says about each element), and The Story (what's actually happening when you put it all together). This is not fact-checking. It is civic epistemology — the practice of knowing how you know.

What it is not.

Joy Radio is not a search engine. It is not a news aggregator. It is not a political platform. It does not tell you what to think. It helps you think more clearly — by showing you what's verified, what's pattern-based, what's possible, and what's just not true.