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Major investigations and mainstream reporting reject the claim that “9/11 was an inside job,” concluding the attacks were carried out by al‑Qaeda operatives; government analyses such as NIST and debun...
The claim that "jet fuel melted steel beams" compresses complex engineering facts into a misleading phrase: ; weakened steel at high temperatures and fire-damaged connections are central to scientific...
The claim that the World Trade Center towers were brought down by a pre-planted “controlled demolition” is a central tenet of the 9/11 Truth movement but has been repeatedly examined and rejected by m...
The claims that the U.S. government directly orchestrated or knowingly permitted the 9/11 attacks rest on a mix of circumstantial anomalies, contested technical interpretations, and long-standing dist...
Standards that trigger criminal investigations of AI-flagged content for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) rest on a mix of legal definitions (including statutes that now cover AI‑generated imagery),...
Official investigations and later forensic projects consistently link the bullets and fragments recovered from the limousine, the Parkland stretcher, and autopsy material to 6.5×52mm ammunition used i...
NIST’s final investigation concluded that fires — ignited by debris from the North Tower — heated floor beams and girders, led a critical internal column to fail, and triggered a fire‑induced progress...
NIST concluded that WTC 7 collapsed because fires, fed by office contents and ignited by debris from the Twin Towers, caused a critical column to fail and a subsequent progressive, fire-induced collap...
Conspiracy theories about 9/11 arise from a mix of psychological reactions to trauma, distrust of official institutions, and selective reading of technical evidence; experts and major investigations (...
Contemporary official investigations concluded that the fragments removed from President Kennedy were consistent with 6.5 mm (Mannlicher–Carcano) style ammunition and that forensic panels found eviden...
Videos and engineering reports show the World Trade Center towers on 9/11 did not simply “hover” but collapsed rapidly because fire- and impact-damaged structural elements failed floor by floor, allow...
The REPORT Act (signed into law May 7, 2024) broadened what electronic service providers (ESPs) must report to the NCMEC CyberTipline and materially lengthened how long providers must preserve the con...
Conspiracy theories centered on the so-called "Dancing Israelis" — five Israeli nationals arrested on 9/11 after being seen filming the World Trade Center attacks — have persisted as a potent symbol u...
Document-based KYC remains common, but suppliers and regulators are rapidly adopting biometric methods — facial biometrics, liveness (active and passive), behavioral biometrics, on‑device credentialin...
The 9/11 Truth movement is a long‑running, loosely organized “truther” movement that denies or disputes the mainstream account of the September 11, 2001 attacks and advances theories such as controlle...
The core claims that 9/11 was an “inside job” center on a handful of specific assertions — notably that hijackers’ passports were improbably intact or planted, that “jet fuel can’t melt steel beams,” ...
Two decades of expert analysis and mainstream fact-checking converge on a single, evidence-based conclusion: the World Trade Center towers collapsed from , not controlled demolition, a finding repeate...
There are multiple existing options to provide digital identity to people without smartphones, spanning , , and ; policy pilots and standards work show countries and standards bodies are explicitly pl...
Authenticating a viral audio recording is a multi-step forensic process that begins with intake and chain-of-custody preservation, proceeds through technical file-level and acoustic analyses to detect...
Modern forensic work has repeatedly re-examined JFK assassination evidence using newer techniques—neutron activation and other metal analyses, digital 3‑D preservation, laboratory re-testing and compu...