Document the original
Use official records and original corporate/reporting pages with source URLs, publication dates, checked dates, locators and precise excerpt scope.
How Media Echo evaluates source chains
Editorial truth boundaries, ethical attribution and the release/revision contract for the static documentary network.
Source cutoff 2026-10-11Human-reviewed transmission evidenceRepetition ≠ coordination
Legal boundary
Repeated allegations cannot by themselves prove guilt, motive, coordination or media-funding relationships. A publicly accessible source may still be wrong, incomplete or revised.
Reviewed connection taxonomy
| Connection type | What it means |
|---|---|
| attributed agency data | Publication explicitly names the underlying official agency figure. |
| same source reporting | Different reporting on same identifiable official release; does not identify an inter-outlet copy chain. |
| dated statistic reuse | Later documentary reuse of a dated published numerical measure. |
| same event official record | A news or analysis item describes the event also documented in an official record. |
| commentary about same event | Public comment referring to an official event; does not prove motivation or content of each vote. |
| documented named quotation | Later document names the earlier speaker and repeats a limited attributed phrase. |
| attributed original disclosure | Later coverage attributes its described facts to a specific company original report. |
| agency claim reported | Later coverage reports the administrative allegation and attributes it to agency. |
| documented wire syndication | Later host explicitly credits and republishes the reporting organization. |
| formal order progression | Same agency moved from proposed restriction to final administrative order. |
| documented official reversal | Identified agency later reverses a previously operative order. |
Nine safeguards
Classify each arrow
An attributed government figure, named quotation, credited wire syndication, independent report on a shared event and official reversal are different events requiring different evidence.
Do not promote a coincidence
Two reporters discussing a vote or using a common public statistic does not show that one copied the other, conspired, was paid, or intentionally misled readers.
Keep legal and legislative stages
Proposal, introduced bill, cloture, final passage, agency complaint, consent order, reversal, allegation, charge and conviction are not interchangeable.
Protect people IDs
A source belongs to its actual documented speaker. Other people who appear in a report are subjects only. Permanent per_ identifiers survive turnover.
Preserve incomplete provenance
A screenshot of X can be a preserved reader submission but is not a verified X server retrieval. Inaccessible articles get limited access labels.
Correct material errors
A Galaxy article calls Chris Coons D-NV; authoritative office records identify Delaware. The FTC July 2025 reversal must accompany any republication of old claims.
No automatic network scoring
The browser filters only pre-approved records. Network arrows are generated from private reviewed JSON; no user ratings, backend, data collection, or hidden follower graph.
Publish and archive static
Bots verify, author private JSON, then rebuild Phase04→05→06→07→08→09→10. Publisher reviews and deploys a single root-index ZIP; prior source and article histories remain.