LEARNING PATH // RESEARCHERS, EDITORS, SOURCE HANDLERS, CIVIL-SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS, EDUCATORS, AND PUBLIC-INTEREST PUBLISHERS
Trace origin and independence, authenticate artifacts, distinguish anonymous/confidential/pseudonymous sources, review whistleblowing channels, minimize identity harm, and preserve correction.
Estimated total: 146 minutes
This learning path is repository-authored curation of public educational routes. It records no participant testing, accepts no files or free text, sends no choices to a remote service, and grants no source authentication, specialist approval, accessibility certification, publication authority, activation authority, production approval, or tuning authority.
Current review status: Repository-authored WIP.26 synthesis — source authentication and relevant legal, editorial, privacy, security, archival, linguistic, cultural, accessibility, affected-community, and specialist review pending
A method for tracing many apparent confirmations back to their actual origins and identifying when actor-controlled or copied material acquires false authority through repetition.
/international/information-integrity/source-independence-circular-reporting-and-source-launderingA publication-safe framework for asking whether an item is what it claims to be, where it came from, how it changed, and whether the evidence path can be reviewed later.
/international/information-integrity/authenticity-provenance-and-chain-of-custodyA source-protection guide that distinguishes an unknown source, a source known privately but withheld publicly, and a persistent pseudonymous identity with an evidence history.
/international/information-integrity/anonymous-confidential-and-pseudonymous-sourcesA comparative, non-legal-advice overview of protected disclosures, retaliation risks, source protection, publication verification, subject response, and the difference between a whistleblower channel and an unauthorized public leak.
/international/information-integrity/whistleblowing-protection-and-editorial-verificationAn editorial framework separating unauthorized acquisition from later publication, with attention to authenticity, public interest, privacy, source protection, selective omission, subject response, legal process, and correction.
/international/networked-movements/public-interest-publishing-stolen-data-and-rightsA visible lifecycle for changing claim status, preserving earlier evidence states, propagating corrections, and reopening a judgment when source, law, context, or scope changes.
/international/information-integrity/corrections-versioning-and-reverification