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Talk to usAuthoritarian movements have historically treated dissent, opposition ties, and criticism of leaders as threats. A future system could scan those signals at far greater scale. This defensive model makes that possibility visible without claiming to reproduce any real regime's methods.
Six signal groups of machine-legible text: political figures; civic activity (events, campaigns, public institutions); network links (handles, groups, invitations); time and place; criticism of power (anti-regime language and directed criticism); and identity clues (direct identifiers). Critical language gets the highest published weight; substantive criticism and generic pejoratives are related to an already-attributed leader, officeholder, party, regime, or government reference within the same post. The two rules remain separately traceable in the explanation.
The built-in leader list is current as of September 2026 (last reviewed 27 September 2026). Former leaders are deliberately retained so historical posts still score. Leaders change; a name missing from the list will lower the score for text that mentions it.
Iran: Mojtaba Khamenei succeeded Ali Khamenei (d. February 2026) in March 2026.
Hungary: Péter Magyar (Tisza) succeeded Viktor Orbán as prime minister in May 2026; Orbán is retained as a former leader for historical posts.
Venezuela: Delcy Rodriguez has served as interim president since January 2026, when Nicolás Maduro was captured.
France has had multiple prime ministers within a year, including resignation and reappointment cycles, so its entries follow a shorter review cadence than stable entries.
Each category is capped at six weighted matches. Multiple active categories and protest-plus-place combinations add disclosed combination bonuses. Short texts are capped at 46, but criticism attributed to power—including the pejorative rule—has a 45-point floor.
| Control | Evidence | Gate |
|---|---|---|
| Pejorative-proximity guard | 11/11 corpus cases pass, including negation, unattributed-entity, historical-post, per-entity, directionality, and span-dedup checks. | Required |
| Pejorative list scope | English v1.0 manually reviewed: no identity-based or protected-characteristic terms; no profanity-only terms. | Required |
The negation guard is deliberately narrow: it blocks not, isn't, never, or hardly only when the word appears between the attributed entity and pejorative within the same clause. It is a literal precision check, not a claim of stance understanding.
This is keyword and proximity matching, not machine-learning stance analysis. It cannot reliably understand context, sarcasm, quotations, images, audience, intent, or whether a claim is true. Its negation check is intentionally limited to four literal words between a recognized power reference and a pejorative in the same clause. It assigns no ideology label, stores no profile, connects to no social platform, and compares your text with no one else's. A low score is not a promise of safety. It is not legal advice and cannot tell you whether you are under surveillance.
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