anonymous source
A source whose legal identity is not known to the receiver, requiring explicit limits on access, motive, corroboration, and public authority.
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A source whose legal identity is not known to the receiver, requiring explicit limits on access, motive, corroboration, and public authority.
#Support from another source or method. Repetition is not independent corroboration when reports share the same origin.
#The exact proposition an independent source tests, such as event occurrence, actor identity, sponsor, intent, reach, effect, legal posture, or remedy.
#A graph that represents original records, transformations, publications, and proposition-specific checks so repeated coverage is not mistaken for independent corroboration.
#Support from a source or method that does not merely repeat the same origin.
#An evaluation produced by the organization conducting or sponsoring an activity; relevant evidence that is not independent corroboration.
#Collected information before full evaluation, corroboration, and analytic synthesis.
#The degree to which many tracks depend on one source origin; high concentration is not independent corroboration.
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