OSINT & Methodology

Open-Source Intelligence OSINT

Open-source intelligence (OSINT) is intelligence produced from publicly available sources — news, social media, satellite imagery, transponder feeds, and public records — rather than from classified collection.

Open-source intelligence (OSINT) is intelligence derived entirely from publicly available information: news reporting, social media, satellite and aerial imagery, ship and aircraft transponders, and public records. Its power comes not from secrecy but from correlation — combining many open signals into a picture no single source shows.

WorldMonitor is an OSINT platform by construction: every layer is sourced from public feeds with documented provenance, which is what lets it publish source-attributed briefs and scores that a reader can trace back to the underlying evidence.

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Provenance & Source Attribution

Provenance is the documented chain from a published score or brief back to the specific public sources it was built from, so any claim can be traced to its underlying evidence.

World Brief

The World Brief is WorldMonitor’s AI-generated, source-attributed summary of the current global situation, synthesized from correlated live signals rather than a single news feed.

Focal Point Detection

Focal point detection is the synthesis layer that correlates news entities with live map signals to identify the "main characters" — the people, places, and organizations driving current events.

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