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Document Leaks

The challenges of verifying the authenticity of leaked documents and the potential for manipulated or uncontextualized claims to be spread rapidly online.

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Feb 7, 2026

How have social media and partisan outlets amplified unverified claims from government document dumps in past cases?

Social media and have rapidly amplified unverified claims from government by treating preliminary, sometimes altered materials as definitive, spreading them beyond original forums and reframing them t...

Feb 3, 2026

What standards do law enforcement and newsrooms use to differentiate unverified tips from prosecutable evidence in large document releases?

treats large document dumps not as immediate prosecutable evidence but as raw leads that must be validated through contemporaneous documentation, chain-of-custody controls, and legal processes before ...