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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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Information Integrity and Networked-Movement Evidence

circular reporting

A pattern in which multiple publications cite one another or a shared origin, making one evidence chain appear to be many confirmations.

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Evidence

corroboration

Support from another source or method. Repetition is not independent corroboration when reports share the same origin.

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Distribution total

A count of copies, broadcasts, drops, transmissions, or other outputs reported as sent or disseminated within a defined period.

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Evidence

information credibility

Assessment of a specific report or claim, separate from the general history of the source.

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Institutional evaluation record

A report, survey summary, after-action review, or historical assessment issued by an organization evaluating its own activity, output, process, or outcome.

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Systems and Institutions

Operating facility

A facility reported as operating at a stated date, distinct from design capacity, certification, real-time availability, and system-wide performance.

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Claim Lifecycle

Publication verb

A verb such as contains, states, reports, estimates, models, projects, proposes, alleges, finds, or proves selected to match the actual evidence and adjudication state.

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Public Health Evidence

Variable lead time

A warning interval that changes with biology, sampling, assay, reporting, comparator, and decision process and therefore cannot be treated as one universal countdown.

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Information Integrity and Networked-Movement Evidence

whistleblower

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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Ethics

whistleblowing

Reporting suspected wrongdoing through protected or public-interest channels. Legal status, authorization, audience, and jurisdiction matter.

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Nuclear Testing History and Evidence

Yield range

A source-reported lower and upper explosive-yield estimate that should remain visible instead of being silently collapsed into one exact value.

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