PUBLIC VOCABULARY
Definitions used across intelligence literacy, evidence, oversight, influence, identity, mental health, personas, and game mechanics. A definition explains site usage; it does not replace jurisdiction-specific law or individual clinical assessment.
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Material released by a person or institution with a direct stake in the narrative, including governments, companies, movements, targets, and self-declared campaign accounts.
#A qualitative judgment about the strength, directness, agreement, gaps, and alternatives in the evidence supporting an analysis.
#A source whose legal identity is not known to the receiver, requiring explicit limits on access, motive, corroboration, and public authority.
#A model estimating historical or simulated order or timing of spread under stated network, pathogen, behavior, detection, and policy assumptions; not a guaranteed future date.
#A sequence of separate evidentiary claims moving from observed material through falsity or misleadingness, coordination, actor identity, sponsor, intent, reach, and demonstrated effect.
#An enforceable outcome that can change an activity or consequence, such as stopping action, quashing authorization, deleting data, correcting a record, or awarding compensation.
#The use of an open name, symbol, slogan, or style by an actor who may not share continuity, authority, or responsibility with earlier users.
#A pattern in which multiple publications cite one another or a shared origin, making one evidence chain appear to be many confirmations.
#The current procedural and evidentiary position of a proposition, such as claimed, observed, corroborated, contradicted, alleged in court, adjudicated, corrected, superseded, or unresolved.
#A model that groups entities into states and represents flows among those states. It is efficient and interpretable but can hide individual pathways and network structure.
#The eligibility, filing, investigation, outcome, appeal, secrecy, and remedy route available to a person challenging an institutional action.
#A source whose identity is known and authenticated privately by the publisher or investigator but withheld publicly for a documented reason.
#Large-scale coordination through personalized digital participation and shared framing rather than formal membership and centralized organizational resources.
#A person’s practical ability to obtain notice, understand relevant reasons, inspect and correct data, seek human reconsideration, appeal, and obtain a remedy.
#A versioned record of a claim’s wording, evidence, status, changes, affected routes, superseded state, and reopening conditions.
#An entity that collects, aggregates, derives, licenses, or sells information about people without necessarily having a direct primary relationship with them.
#A directional network measure derived from movement or traffic probabilities that can describe diffusion relationships differently from physical mileage.
#A documented sequence of possession and transformation that allows reviewers to assess whether an evidence item remained identifiable and materially unchanged.
#The recorded origin, acquisition, transformation, publication, and custody history of an evidence item.
#The transformation of an actor-controlled, anonymous, or weakly supported claim into apparently authoritative information through repeated retelling and obscured origin.
#Review or approval required before a defined activity may begin, distinct from later inspection, complaint, or remedy.
#A probabilistic process that uses observed or linked data to infer a person’s identity or sensitive attributes.
#The institutions, infrastructures, laws, media, platforms, languages, social networks, and material conditions through which information is produced, distributed, received, challenged, and corrected.
#A coordination structure without formal permanent command that may still contain temporary administrators, technical specialists, informal influence, and resource control.
#Words describing the probability of an event or proposition, which should not be fused with evidentiary confidence.
#A statement that a person belongs to a movement or group, which must identify whether the basis is self-identification, participation, role, legal evidence, or external labeling.
#Data about another record or activity, such as time, location, device, routing, or transaction context, which can become sensitive when aggregated.
#An outcome convention that protects secrecy by avoiding disclosure of whether a person or activity was subject to intelligence or surveillance action.
#A concrete authority such as access, inspection, compulsion, authorization, investigation, publication, correction, adjudication, or remedy held by an oversight body.
#A task-and-evidence table used to choose among maps, globes, timelines, networks, document readers, statistical panels, narrative sequences, and mixed views.
#A result in which an apparently neutral variable reproduces or correlates with a protected, sensitive, or historically disadvantaged characteristic.
#A source using a persistent non-legal identity that may accumulate a public evidence history without disclosing an offline identity.
#The degree to which an evidence item was generated without relying on the same underlying origin as another item.
#An assessment of a source’s access, record, expertise, motive, bias, validation, and limitations, kept separate from whether one particular claim is likely true.
#A person who reports suspected wrongdoing through a channel that may receive legal or policy protection; the term does not automatically cover every public leak or every jurisdiction.
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