Source Evaluation & Validation

Trust is a hypothesis. These lessons grade the source, grade the information, and show what fusion looks like when the tiles do not agree.

Intermediate · 14 min of reading

Lessons

2 lessons are live on this path. Each one is a full read, the kind you can brief from.

The Admiralty scale, the evidence chain, and why three unreliable sources agreeing is a rumor book club.

5 min read

Fuse HUMINT, SIGINT, and OSINT, and tell corroboration apart from the same story heard twice.

9 min read

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