Methodology
1. Sourcing
Articles are built only from sources that have been individually reviewed and registered as rights-cleared: verified public-domain government documents (statutes, official transcripts, court orders, the Federal Register) or wholly synthetic material used for testing. Possession of a public URL does not by itself qualify a document -- each source's identity, origin, and rights basis is recorded before it can be used. See Sources for the sourcing policy in full.
2. AI-assisted pipeline
A self-hosted, locally-run language model assists with several stages of production: extracting facts and evidence spans from a source document, drafting an article from those extracted facts, and independently fact-checking the draft against the same source material. The pipeline is designed to abstain -- to leave a claim out or flag it as unsupported -- rather than assert something the underlying sources do not say.
3. Human editorial review
No article publishes automatically. Every draft that the pipeline produces goes through a human editorial approval step before it is released to readers. Editorial review checks each assertion against its cited evidence and can reject, revise, or hold a draft.
4. What this process is not
Silent Dossier does not employ a newsroom of human reporters, does not conduct interviews, and does not perform original investigative reporting in the traditional sense. It does not operate a 24-hour staffed desk. Its output is limited to what can be honestly derived from its rights-cleared source documents through the AI-assisted, human-approved process described above. See AI Disclosure for more detail on the role AI plays.
Author of record: Silent Dossier Editorial Desk.