Inference

A one-line claim about what a case means beyond its own domain. Each case carries at most one, and it must be signed by a named person before it is published if it names a company.

Every field in a case carries one of these labels, its sources, and a confidence.

See also · The four claim types

Fact

A statement that a primary record makes: a regulator, a court, a standards body, the responsible company, an independent reproduction, or a public record. The Register never upgrades a claim to fact; the verifier can downgrade one.

Assertion

A statement a named party makes that no primary record has yet confirmed: a researcher's write-up, a press report, a company's self-report, or police statements relayed through the press.

Interpretation

The Register's reading of the evidence, labeled as such, including every pattern on the Patterns page.

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