Primary
Official documents, policy text, court records, filings, transcripts, direct statements, and published technical records.
Source Standards
Sources are not interchangeable.
Compute Statecraft separates source types so readers can see whether a claim rests on direct records, reported analysis, or public positioning by an actor.
Secondary
Reputable reporting and analysis that interprets primary material, adds context, or verifies events through independent work.
Social
Posts, threads, and public claims by actors or observers. Social sources usually show positioning, not proof by themselves.
How to read provenance labels
- SOURCED
- A listed source directly supports the statement.
- INFERRED
- The statement is a reasoned synthesis with source links and a short explanation of why the inference is warranted.
- SPECULATIVE
- The statement is a scenario or hypothesis, not confirmed fact.
What usually does not confirm a claim
- A single social post with no corroborating record.
- An opinion column that restates a rumor without fresh reporting.
- A general market narrative that does not connect to a cited actor, document, or measurable event.
- A stale citation that was superseded by a newer primary source.
Correction trigger
A correction is required when a claim is unsupported, materially incomplete, mislabeled, broken by a newer primary source, or framed in a way that changes the apparent weight of evidence.