Public Discourse
Four Tiers of Verification
TLDR Every factual claim in the PAPER TRAIL documentary series is assigned one of four evidence tiers: T1 (government primary source), T2 (corpus-derived), T3...
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Public Discourse
Method as Protagonist
TLDR PAPER TRAIL presents analytical methodology rather than individuals as the narrative protagonist. The machine's process of discovery -- how it extracts...
Observations
OBS-5/6: When Scanning Software Hallucinates Countries From Blank Forms
TLDR Two observations were retracted after visual inspection revealed that scanning software (OCR, or optical character recognition — software that reads text...
Documentary Production
Four Tiers of Verification: How Every Claim Is Graded
TLDR Every claim in PAPER TRAIL is assigned one of four evidence tiers: T1 (government primary source), T2 (corpus-derived computation), T3 (journalism), or T4...
Methodology
External Corroboration: How Six Agents Verified the Corpus
TLDR Six parallel research agents independently verified corpus findings against public registries, FAA records, and court filings (PAPER TRAIL Project,...