A fifty-page risk assessment becomes a one-page briefing, and everyone praises the clarity. What vanishes first are the caveats, dissenting footnotes, and named sources—exactly the seams that show who assumed what. The brief arrives as a confident recommendation with no visible joints, so a reader cannot tell whose judgment would have to answer if the advice failed. Compression looks like a gift of time, yet it can quietly ________, handing decision-makers a clean sentence while scattering the accountability the full report had pinned to particular names.