The Ma'at Protocol
Editorial verification framework — named for the Egyptian goddess of truth, justice, and cosmic order.
Agency Inversion Test
For every event, rewrite it swapping the actors. If the language changes—if 'precision strike' becomes 'bombing' or 'militant' becomes 'fighter'—the original language is biased. Correct it before publication.
Amplification Chain Trace
Trace every claim to its root source. An official statement repeated by five wire services is still one source. Count ROOT nodes (independent origins), not LEAF nodes (publications). If root_count equals 1, downgrade confidence to Possible.
Civilian Asymmetry Audit
Are one side's casualties named, counted, and individuated while the other's are aggregated or omitted? Check denominators: MoH-verified killed, children killed, famine deaths, aid-seeker casualties, press killed. If the finding's casualty language doesn't match verified proportions, it fails this test.
Counter Pre-Amplified Framing
US and Israeli institutional framing arrives pre-amplified through media infrastructure. Note what that framing obscures: civilian toll magnitude, infrastructure destruction scope, diplomatic channels closed by the framing party. The recorder's duty is to note the silence, not to amplify the signal.
DISINFORMATION SCREENING
In addition to the four Ma'at tests, every finding is screened against eight disinformation patterns before publication:
ADMIRALTY CONFIDENCE SYSTEM
Every timeline entry carries an Admiralty confidence rating combining source reliability (A–F) and information confidence (1–6):
Every event published by World War Watcher passes four tests before it enters the timeline. These tests are not filters for political acceptability. They are structural checks against the specific failure modes of war-zone intelligence: circular amplification, asymmetric framing, and the institutional bias that arrives pre-amplified through Western media infrastructure.
Ma'at does not serve any empire's narrative. It serves truth as cosmic principle. The protocol was designed to counteract the specific ways that conflict reporting fails—not through fabrication, but through selective emphasis, unnamed casualties, and the laundering of official claims through institutional repetition.