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The forensic audit of one record along six questions: who, what, when, where, why and how. Each axis carries a confidence reading and a mark if it is contested.

See alsoPillar

The way the amount of coverage a topic gets shapes how important audiences think it is. Framing then shapes how they think about it.

See alsoFraming

How much attention a story is demanding: 1 Elevated, 2 Critical, 3 Systemic. Each tier has a stated rule, for example two Tier 2 alerts within 60 minutes raise Tier 3.

See alsoAnomaly

A reading two or more spreads from its baseline. It is flagged for you to examine. It is confirmed only when physical telemetry agrees.

See alsoTelemetry

A 0 to 100 reading of how far wording and selection lean in one direction. It describes the lean. It does not say the story is false.

See alsoFramingTrust score

The recorded path of a claim or a document: who held it, when, and what changed.

See alsoProvenance

A group of accounts or outlets acting together while hiding who they are or that they are linked, so that a message looks more widely held than it is.

See alsoInformation operationOrigin and repeat

Independent origins agreeing on the same facts. Forty outlets repeating one briefing is one origin, not forty.

See alsoOrigin and repeat

Disinformation is false content spread on purpose. Misinformation is false content shared by people who believe it. Malinformation is true content used to cause harm, such as a leaked private detail.

See alsoInformation operation

One item on the wire: a report or a cluster of reports about the same event, with a reference number, a time in your time zone and the sources behind it.

See alsoReference numberWire

A structured, exportable record of one story: claims, scores and their inputs, sources and the edit history. Also called a SITREP.

See alsoSeal

How the wording and selection of a report present an event. Framing is compared across outlets and zones so that departures show.

See alsoBias scoreZone

A grid that crosses pillars with how material each one is for a given event, so you see where an event reaches and where it does not.

See alsoPillar

How much a dispatch matters to what you follow, from the zone, the tier and your watchlist. It orders the wire. It is not a judgement of truth.

See alsoAlert tier

A planned effort to shape what an audience believes or does through information. Also called an influence operation. It can use true, false or selective material.

See alsoCoordinated inauthentic behaviourDisinformation, misinformation and malinformation

How reports enter the record: fetched, captured with the time they were seen, de-duplicated and linked to their sources.

See alsoProvenance

Following how an event is told over time and across outlets, so that changes in wording, emphasis and attribution can be seen and dated.

See alsoFramingZone

Analysis built from information anyone can lawfully access, such as published news, official statements, public filings and satellite imagery. It does not involve private or restricted data.

See alsoProvenance

An origin is the first report of a claim, or a report with its own sourcing. A repeat relays it without adding anything. Corroboration counts origins only.

See alsoCorroboration

One of nine angles on the same event: economic, financial, political, supply chain, humanitarian, legal, security, environmental and technological.

See also6-axis audit

Where a claim came from and the path it took: its first appearance, who repeated it and what changed on the way.

See alsoChain of custodyOrigin and repeat

The gap between what a narrative claims and what independent physical evidence recorded, scored 0 to 100.

See alsoTelemetry

The permanent number on every record. It is never reused, so a record can always be cited and found again.

See alsoSeal

A fixed set of articles kept so an exercise or a score can be repeated and compared. The scoring is the same pipeline that reads live reports.

See alsoIngestion

A seal fixes a record's content and time. Any later change is recorded as a new entry rather than a rewrite, and the sealed version stays as it was.

See alsoDossierReference number

An alert for an abnormal drop in coverage inside an active crisis zone. A sudden quiet can be a signal.

See alsoZone

A source's measured record: claims later supported, corrections made, the size of the sample and the date of last review.

See alsoTrust score

A text's position toward a named target, such as a government or a policy. It differs from sentiment, which is only the tone of the words.

See alsoBias score

Machine-measured signals such as ship tracking, radar or satellite imagery, used to check a narrative against something that does not depend on an outlet.

See alsoAnomaly

A 0 to 100 estimate of how well the evidence stands behind a claim. It combines source reliability, corroboration, recency and primary documents, and lists each input.

See alsoCorroborationSource reliability

The running feed of dispatches, newest first. Flashes mark the changes that deserve attention before the rest.

See alsoDispatch

One of eight geographic media zones. Each has a heat reading from 0 to 100 against a 30-day baseline, and the same event can be framed differently in each.

See alsoZone heatFraming

A measured reading of how much and how unusually a zone is being reported on. The inputs are listed with the number.

See alsoZoneAnomaly