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Source Reliability Is Not a Property of the Source

The OSINT community treats source reliability as a fixed trait. It is not. Here is why that assumption corrupts analysis and what to ask instead

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Joe Gray
May 20, 2026
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Most OSINT practitioners think about source reliability the wrong way. Not because they are careless or untrained, but because the mental model the community defaults to is built on a flawed premise:…

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